Anantapur: Denying passes and invitations to several MLAs and MPs, who led Samaikyandhra agitation, has raised many an eyebrow in the region.
However, several leaders from the Rayal-aseema region received passes to take part in All India Congress Committee meeting. Rajampeta MP, Saiprathap of Kadapa district, was reportedly not listed to get the pass following the no confidence motion against the United Progressive Alliance Government for speedy process of carving out Telangana.
Saiprathap was only MP from the Congress party who signed in the notice against the UPA Government along with MPs from Coastal Andhra region.
The Nandyal MP, S.P.Y. Reddy, who was a member of Congress, from Kurnool district, has shifted loyalties to YSR Congress.
Sources said, the Anantapur MP, Ananta Venkatrami Reddy, who was forced by Samaikyandhra JACs and other MPs to support the no confidence motion was keeping a distance.
He had also ruled out the possibility of leaving the party. Reliable sources told this reporter that the Anantapur MP was planning to attend the AICC meeting.
“I have neither proposed nor issued any notice in connection with the no confidence motion against my Government,” he said and added that he would be taking part in the programme.
Meanwhile, Tadipatri MLA, J.C. Diwakar Reddy, continued his tirade against the Congress High Command.
The senior MLA who has been criticising the Congress High Command, including Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, Botsa Satyanarayana, found fault with the party leadership for denying invitation to many leaders from Seemandhra region.
The Revenue Minister, N. Raghuveera Reddy, who had received invitation will be unable to take part at the AICC meeting in the wake of Assembly sessions, sources said.
The Union Minister of State for Railways, Kotla Jayasuryaprakash Reddy, who hails from Kurnool Lok Sabha segment, was strongly supporting the High Command, in spite of the mounting pressure against the State division.
He was the only top leader from Kurnool district expressing loyalties towards the party High Command despite turbulent times of bifurcation of the state.
