As announced earlier, Congress MLA from Bobbili Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao on Wednesday resigned from the primary membership of party as well as his assembly seat in protest against the arrest of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy by the CBI in his alleged illegal assets case.

Ranga Rao declared that he would be joining the YSR Congress party. He said PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana had not treated him even like a mandal parishad member and he had not been given the due recognition in the party despite being a three-time MLA. The Congress leadership, particularly, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, made a desperate bid to retain him in the party, but it was of no use.

What is more worrying for the party are the reports that two more MLAs from Vizianagaram district – Savarapu Jayamani of Parvathipuram and Janardhan of Kurupam – have also made up their mind to quit the Congress and join the YSR Congress party. Both of them had detailed talks with Ranga Rao and are expected to meet Jagan in the jail in a day or two.