Richest Lawmaker in Poll-bound Telangana leaves TRS to Join Congress
Hyderabad, Nov 21: A day after Lok Sabha member Konda Vishweshwar Reddy quit the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) citing 'disappointment' at various levels, AICC in-charge of Telangana, R C Khuntia Wednesday said he would join the Congress.
Reddy met Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Delhi today and expressed his desire to join the party, Khuntia told PTI.
Reddy would formally join the party on November 23 at a Congress campaign rally at Medchal in the presence of former Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, he said.
The TRS Lok Sabha member from Karimnagar, B Vinod Kumar said, "It's unfortunate that Vishweshwar took that decision (to quit TRS).
"I don't think so," Kumar, the deputy floor leader of TRS in Lok Sabha, told PTI when asked if Reddy's decision would have an impact on TRS prospects in the December seven Assembly elections in Telangana.
In a setback to the TRS ahead of the Assembly polls, Reddy had quit the party Tuesday.
In a letter to the TRS president and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Reddy said he was disappointed with the ruling party at various levels.
He was forced into a position of contemplating leaving the party despite the fact that today TRS enjoys significant goodwill in the "social circles that we are in," Reddy had said in his letter.
Reddy listed disappointments at five levels -- personal, injustice to karyakartas (those) who worked for Telangana statehood, constituency, state and party -- in the letter.
He said he would resign from the Lok Sabha.
The Telangana assembly elections are scheduled to be held on December 7.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
