Jalagam Venkata Rao to join YSRCP

Hyderabad, Oct 11, 2012: Congress leader Jalagam Venkata Rao, son of the late chief minister Jalagam Vengala Rao, announced here today he would soon join the YSR Congress party.

Venkata Rao, who won from the Sattupalli assembly constituency in 2004, visited the Chanchalguda jail and met YSRCP president Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and informed him of his decision to join the party.

Venkata Rao said he has close relations with the YSR family and met Jagan to boost up his morale. “I will soon join the YSRCP,” he said, adding he has decided to stand by Jagan in his difficult times.

He alleged both Congress and TDP have conspired together to harass Jagan and his family members.