India, May 14 -- A sitting member of Andhra Pradesh legislative council (MLC), Mayana Zakia Khanam, on Wednesday resigned from the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) as well as her council membership and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), dealing another blow to former chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Khanam, who is also the deputy chairperson of the legislative council, sent her resignation letter to Reddy, who is also the YSRCP president, through her personal secretary, citing personal reasons.

She also sent a separate letter to legislative council chairman Koyya Moshen Raju informing her decision.

Zakia Khanam, a prominent Muslim leader from Rayachoti in Annamayya district, was nominated as an MLC under the Governor's quota in July 2...