Bhubaneswar, Jan. 27 -- Several Odisha leaders including former Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang joined the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Friday. With these joining, the BRS has literally set its foot in Odisha.

Besides Giridhar Gamang, his wife Hema Gamang and son Shishir Gamang, former MPs Jayaram Pangi and Ramchandra Hansda, former MLAs Naveen Nanda, Brundaban Majhi, Raghab Sethi and Debraj Seth, noted farmer leaders Akshay Kumar and Seshadev Nanda, RTI activist Pradeep Pradhan, several farmer leaders, social activists and advocates joined the BRS in presence of party chief K Chandrashekar Rao at a special function held in Hyderabad.

"Around 500 people from Odisha reached here in 10 buse...