"kadiyam-kavya"

Aruna had contested from Mahabubnagar in 2019 too, but lost to Congress candidate M Srinivas Reddy.

Srihari and Kavya joined the Congress from the BRS on Sunday.

She wrote a letter to the party chief K Chandrashekhar Rao to this effect and thanked him for giving her the opportunity to contest the elections.

The decision was reached following a meeting between BRS chief Chandrashekhar Rao and BSP Telangana president RS Praveen Kumar recently.