It was a day of hectic political activity for the Congress with groups opposing the working style of TPCC president Revanth Reddy and those in favour of him sending signals of disapproval of each group’s loyalty to the party, though they argued that it was all in the interests of the Congress.
The ‘dissident’ leaders calling themselves ‘Congress loyalists’ met at a private hotel on Sunday at the initiation of former MP V. Hanumantha Rao and attended by Sangareddy MLA Jayaprakash Reddy, former Minister Marri Shashidhar Reddy and a few others. The only agenda seems to be raising a banner of revolt against Mr. Revanth Reddy, whom they accused of taking unilateral decisions, while expressing their support to the Congress high command.
Mr. Jagga Reddy later told reporters that they met only to discuss party affairs and how Mr. Revanth Reddy was not taking all the leaders along. He said that AICC in-charge of Telangana Manickam Tagore was playing a partisan role and the loyalists’ effort was to reach out to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi as they don’t want “Punjab kind of developments” in Telangana Congress.
