In yet another setback to the YSR Congress Party, the party’s Rajya Sabha member Ryaga Krishnaiah resigned from his membership in the Upper House.
He submitted his resignation to the Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and it was accepted with immediate effect.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Krishnaiah said that he took the decision to resign from his Rajya Sabha membership, after discussing with the various OBC groups. “I shall work for the strengthening of the OBC communities,” he said, without disclosing his future political plans.
Krishnaiah is the third Rajya Sabha member of the YSRCP to have resigned in the past one month, the other two being Mopidevi Venkataramana and Beeda Mastan Rao, who resigned from the party as well as their MP seats on August 29.
Krishnaiah, however, is yet to resign from the party.
He will resign from the party in a day or two and is likely to join the BJP.
The other two MPs — Venkataramana and Mastan Rao — declared that they will join the ruling Telugu Desam Party soon.
With the resignation of Krishnaiah, the strength of YSRCP in Rajya Sabha has come down from 11 to eight.
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