Wife of senior Congress leader joins BJP in Telangana
Padmini Reddy, wife of senior Congress leader C Damodar Raja Narasimha and a social worker, on Thursday joined rival BJP in Telangana ahead of the state assembly elections. "Padmini Reddy wanting to join [BJP] to work as a Karyakartha is her own decision. No one from BJP influenced her to make that decision," BJP clarified after she joined the party.