BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi joined the Congress in Telangana on Saturday, taking the total number of opposition legislators who switched over to the ruling party to nine.
Gandhi, elected from Serilingampally here, was welcomed into the Congress fold by Chief
Minister and PCC president A Revanth Reddy.
Along with Gandhi, BRS corporators in Hyderabad Nagender Yadav, Uppalapati Srikanth, Manjula Raghunath Reddy, Narne Srinivas also defected to the Congress.