Date:21/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/21/stories/2008022158660300.htm

Local businessman Nallapaneni Venkata Prasad joined Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday in the presence of the party’s national and State leaders at the State Working Committee meeting in the city. A rally taken out from Gurunanak Colony preceded the formal ceremony of his joining the party.