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Telangana: Senior BJP leader and Former Telangana minister AP Jithender Reddy resigned from the party on Friday. Immediately after his resignation, he joined Congress and Congress appointed him as the govt’s special representative and advisor to govt on sports affairs.
Jithender Reddy’s resignation came a day after his meeting with Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy. Jithender Reddy was upset as BJP did not consider his candidature from Mahbubnagar and instead gave the ticket to party national vice president DK Aruna.
On social media platform X, Jithender Reddy shared some pictures of him joining Congress in the presence of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Telangana in-charge Deepadas Munshi and Revanth Reddy. Jithender Reddy tweeted,”Onto a new journey.” In his resignation letter, Reddy stated that after the change of leadership in the state BJP, the party suffered losses in assembly elections.
Jithender Reddy – who was the BJP National Executive member – cited giving “preference to outsiders” as his reason to part ways from the party. He added, “Even for the Lok Sabha elections, party gave preference to newcomers who do not share the same ethos as us. I had conveyed my apprehensions several times to state and national leadership.”
His’s resignation letter addressed to BJP chief JP Nadda said, “In the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, our party has given preference to outsiders who recently joined our party and do not share the same ethos as us. I have conveyed my reservations and apprehensions several times at the state and national level. Therefore, with deep regret, I resign from the Bharatiya Janata Party.”
He also mentioned the BJP’s poor performance in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections, which he blamed the “change in state leadership” for. He thanked the BJP national leadership especially the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for their untiring efforts to develop the country.
Former Telangana minister and senior BJP leader Jithender Reddy stated, “The party has suffered severely as witnessed in the recently concluded assembly elections, where the party should have won at least 25 seats, but we managed to secure only 8 seats in the 119-member assembly of the Telangana assembly.”
