Telangana CM KCR offers prayers at Pandharpur temple amid BRS leaders' rebellion

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) reached Maharashtra on a two-day visit to step up the party activities in the state, besides visiting prominent temples.  KCR left his Pragati Bhavan official bungalow by road, in a huge convoy of over 600 vehicles with his cabinet colleagues, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other senior party leaders. Telangana CM KCR offered prayers at Shri Vitthal Rukmini Temple in Pandharpur on Tuesday. The KCR-led Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) previously known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi is seeking to expand its national base. Meanwhile, leaders from Maharashtra are likely to join in BRS party in the presence of CM KCR at Solapur today. Uddhav Thackeray faction MP Sanjay Raut `downplayed` the CM`s visit. Meanwhile, former Telangana minister Jupally Krishna Rao and several BRS leaders formally joined Congress in Delhi on Monday in the presence of Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge and its former chief Rahul Gandhi. This switch is seen as a makor boost to Congress, which is wrestling to return to power in the state where elections are due later this year.