Former Andhra Pradesh BJP President Kanna Lakshminaraya Resigns From Party

BJP leaders Adapa Siva Nagendram Rao and Thalla Venkatesh Yadav also tendered their resignations from the primary membership of the party.

Kanna Lakshminaraya

Source : ABP Desam

Former Andhra Pradesh BJP Unit Chief and senior BJP leader Kanna Lakshmi Narayana resigned from the saffron party on Thursday. BJP leaders Adapa Siva Nagendram Rao and Thalla Venkatesh Yadav also tendered their resignations from the primary membership of the party.

All three have cited personal reasons and compulsions as the reasons behind their resignations.

BJP leaders Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, Adapa Siva Nagendram Rao and Thalla Venkatesh Yadav tender their resignations from the primary membership of the party. All three have cited "personal reasons and compulsions" as the reason behind their resignations.

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According to the ABP Desam report, the former minister invited his followers and well-wishers to his residence on Thursday for consultations. The decision comes due to his dissatisfaction with the party’s high command’s dealings with the state unit.

Earlier, he had openly expressed his displeasure about the party leadership in the state and its functioning several times. He had also criticised his BJP colleagues GVL Narasimha Rao and Somuveera Raju.

He is likely to join Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Kanna Lakshminarayana, a five-time legislator, served as BJP President for the state of Andhra Pradesh from 2018 to 2020.

He represented Pedakurapadu, the biggest constituency in Andhra Pradesh, for four straight terms and won another election from the Guntur West assembly constituency as a congress nominee. He served as a cabinet minister under five-chief ministers, Kotla Vijayabhaskara Bhaskara Reddy, Nedurumalli Janardhan Reddy, YS Rajasekhara Reddy, K Rosaiah and N Kiran Kumar Reddy.

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