Congress senior leader Kishore Chandra Deo quits party, likely to join TDP

Congress senior leader and six-time MP Kishore Chandra Deo resigned to the party on Sunday and is likely to join Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

He represented Araku constituency from 2009-2014 in Lok Sabha. Kishore had also served as Union Minister for Tribal Welfare and Panchayat Raj in Manmohan Singh cabinet. He was also a Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Coal in the Central Cabinet in 1979-80. In 2014 general elections, he was defeated in the hands of Kothapalli Geetha of YSRCP.

The former MP is planning to contest in parliament elections from Araku.