Former Congress Minister Kondru Murali is gearing upto join the Telugu Desam Party. He is also previously the Vice-president of the Congress Party. He will join the Cycle Party in the Presence of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on 31st of this month in Amaravati. He is reportedly promised Rajam (Srikakulam District) Constituency Ticket.
Former Speaker Prathibha Bharathi is the TDP Incharge for Rajam. She will have to be accommodated in some nominated post now. Kondru Murali is one of the very few leaders who are left with Congress after the State Bifurcation. The efforts of PCC President Raghuveera Reddy to stop him leaving the party did not yield results.
Murali got elected to the Assembly from Etcherla in 2004 and Rajam in 2009 and served as a Minister for Health in Cabinets of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, K.Rosaiah and Kirankumar Reddy between 2009 and 2014. He unsuccessfully contested from Rajam in 2014 due to the Bifurcation effect. He expected to be made the PCC President but the party high command did not give him.
