Former MP Vivekanand resigns from BJP, likely to join Congress

Hyderabad: Dr G Vivekanand resigned as member of Parliament from Bharatiya Janta Party on November 1st and is likely to join Congress in Telangana.

The resignation is to pave way for his son Vamshi to contest from Congress party against BRS Balka Suman in Chennur.

A chequered history of parties

Dr G Vivekanand has a chequered history of party hopping as he was earlier in the Indian National Congress party and also with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi. His history shows that he was in Congress then TRS (BRS) to Congress to TRS to BJP to Congress.

Dr G Vivekanand has served 3 terms in Congress, 2 terms in BRS and one term in BJP.

Vivek is a BJP manifesto committee chairman. As the manifesto committee chairman has resigned the state BJP leadership is left in lurch for preparing its manifesto.

He was presently representing Peddapalli parliamentary constituency. His father G Venkat Swamy is a senior leader of the Congress party and was a member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha. His father didn’t contest the seat in 2014 as Dr G Vivekanand contested.

Coal and cricket committee

Dr G Vivekanand was a member of coal and steel committee and also president of Hyderabad Cricket Association in 2017. He was removed in 2018 due to conflict of interest.

Family history of politics

While his father worked with the Congress party, his brother Gaddam Vinod is contesting for the MLA ticket from Bellampali. With the third generation from the family to join politics, the family has come back to INC for their youngest candidate.