Hyderabad Mayor Gadwal Vijayalaxmi joins Congress

After days of behind-the-door meetings with AICC Telangana in-charge Deepa Dasmunsi, GHMC Mayor Gadwal Vijayalaxmi on Saturday, March 30, finally joined the Congress party after recently quitting the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

Deepa Dasmunsi and Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy welcomed her into the party in an official



ceremony.

Her father and senior BRS MP K Keshava Rao will join the party soon, in the presence of former AICC chief Sonia Gandhi.

The Hyderabad mayor’s shifting of loyalty is expected to be a shot in the arm for Congress, which drew a blank in the Assembly elections in the Greater Hyderabad region, which sends 24 MLAs.