Congress open for a pact with Telangana Rashtra Samithi: Digvijay Singh
Hyderabad: AICC general secretary and state party affairs incharge Digvijay Singh said the Congress was open to an alliance proposal by the TRS.
“If the TRS comes up with specific proposals, the A.K. Antony Committee will consider it and take a decision,” he said.
When asked about the Telangana chief minister candidate, Mr Digvijay Singh said that the Congress never announced its CM candidate before the polls. Unless the Congress gets majority, there would be no talk about the Chief Minister, he said.
Did this mean that the party was not confident of getting a majority in Telangana? “One should not be over confident,” said Mr Digvijay Singh. He added that if any TRS MLA wanted to join the Congress, they should approach Telangana PCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Telangana PCC working president Uttam Kumar Reddy or himself.
About Seemandhra, Mr Digvijay Singh said that the region had many capable leaders from the party. Expressing his displeasure regarding former chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy leaving the party and floating his own, Mr Digvijay Singh said that like Mr Chandrasekhar Rao, Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy too had made a promise to Mrs Sonia Gandhi which he had not kept. He said that Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy had promised him as well as Mrs Gandhi that he would will not leave the Congress and float a party.
Mr Digvijay Singh also said that actor Pawan Kalyan’s new political party would not have any effect. When pointed out that Pawan, who was Union minister Chira-njeevi’s brother, and YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is YSR’s son, would be fighting against the party, Mr Digvikay Singh said that the same was also true in the case of NTR’s family.
Mr Digvijay Singh, however, reiterated that Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy had Congress DNA and asked whether Jagan could deny that his father, grandfather and uncle were in the Congress and that he himself had won from the Congress.
