No Images? Click here In the latest sign that elected legislators are little more than willing pawns in larger games of political patronage, 12 of the Congress’s 18 MLAs in Telangana have merged with the ruling party, K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).The defection has effectively robbed Telangana of an opposition as the Congress has been reduced to a mere six seats, meaning the TRS’s ally Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), with seven MLAs will now rise to the status of the main opposition party, in a house of 119 seats.New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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