Vijayawada: YSR Congress MLA Uppuleti Kalpana on Friday joined ruling TDP in Andhra Pradesh in the presence of party national president and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who formally re-admitted her into the party.
She represents the Pamarru (SC) Assembly constituency in Krishna district and becomes the 21st MLA from YSRC to cross over to the ruling party since February this year.
Kalpana was a member of the TDP and unsuccessfully contested the Assembly polls twice in 2004 and 2009.
She joined the YSRC ahead of the 2014 elections and won the Pamarru seat.
Despite being in the opposition party, she maintained good relations with her former colleagues in the TDP and for the past few months had been toying with the idea of returning to the parent party.
With Chandrababu giving the go-ahead, she formally returned to the TDP today.
Kalpana said she joined the TDP to develop her constituency.
"As an opposition MLA, I couldn't develop the constituency and hence decided to return to my parent party," she claimed.
TDP state president Kala Venkata Rao was also present on the occasion.
