Hyderabad, May 9 -- Former Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and mother of Telangana statehood martyr Srikantha Chary, Shankaramma, joined the Congress party, days ahead of the Lok Sabha elections voting on May 13.

She was invited into the party by Irrigation minister and senior party leader N Uttam Kumar Reddy at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday, May 9.

Shankaramma resigned from the BRS after the party denied her desire to be the party's nominee from the Bhuvangiri Parliamentary seat for the LS polls.

She was the BRS contestant from Huzurnagar in 2014 and was pitted against Uttam Kumar Reddy in 2014, but stood as the runner-up.

Addressing the press after the joining, Reddy said that Srikantha Chary sacrificed his life for Telangana stateh...