Hyderabad, June 14 -- Former minister and four-time legislator from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Eatala Rajender on Monday, in a not-so-surprising move, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of its national leaders.

Ending almost a two-decade long association with the party and its supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao, Eatala Rajender had recently quit TRS alleging the witch-hunt in relation to what he called 'baseless' allegations of land grabbing. On Saturday, he had also submitted his resignation as an MLA.

This big shift to BJP comes over a month after Eatala Rajender was stripped from his health portfolio in the state cabinet over allegations that he encroached 66 acres of assigned land through Jamuna Hatcheries Privat...