The two BRS leaders joined the Congress on a day when it completed 100 days in power. The BRS, which lost power to Congress after ruling the state for 10 years, had won 39 seats in the 119-member Assembly. Ranjith Reddy was "unhappy" with the party leadership after he was denied renomination from Chevella seat. In his resignation letter to BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Ranjith Reddy wrote that due to current political circumstances in the state, he came to the difficult decision to pursue an alternative path. The BRS has already announced Kasani Gnaneshwar Mudiraj as its candidate for Chevella, a constituency comprising Assembly segments around Hyderabad. He had resigned from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to join BRS in November last year ahead of the Assembly elections.