Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy returned to Hyderabad without meeting AICC president Rahul Gandhi. He submitted the proposals for the TPCC executive committee and other committees to Mr Koppula Raju, the incharge of Mr Gandhi’s office, and TS Congress incharge R.C. Khuntia.
Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy had been summoned to Delhi on Saturday morning to submit proposals. But it turned out that Mr Gandhi was busy.
After Mr Gandhi started appointing new PCCs to all states, and the TPCC was asked to continue till the new committee is announced by the AICC. The TPCC has only one working president, Mr Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. In the new committee, the high command is likely to appoint two more working presidents to the TPCC. The name of legislator A. Revanth Reddy is among the names under consideration.
The high command has appointed 3 working presidents for the Odisha PCC and four for its Madhya Pradesh unit. The TPCC has 13 vice-presidents and 24 general secretaries.
According to sources there will be no major changes in the present committee except one or two changes and appointing new working presidents.
Retirement at 60, says Congress
TPCC chief spokesperson Dasoju Sravan on Friday demanded that the TRS government increase the retirement age of government employees from 58 to 60 years.
Speaking to the media on Saturday at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Sravan said that the government employees had fought for Telangana statehood risking their lives and salaries but the state government had not solved their problems in the last four years.
He alleged that the state government was playing with the lives of lakhs of employees and that the Congress was ready to fight on their behalf.
During the statehood agitation, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao had spent many hours with government employees but after becoming Chief Minister he was not sparing even five minutes to discuss their problems, he alleged.
He said that some leaders of the employees had become loyal to the government after getting good postings and had betrayed the employees. He demanded that the state government discuss the Contributory Pension Scheme with the Centre and also bring home the Telangana employees working in AP.
