Hyderabad: Unrest is brewing in the TS Congress after the announcement of the jumbo office bearers’ list. Congress spokesman V. Krishna Mohan, who had quit the party in protest at not being given a post despite him being a senior, joined the TRS on Friday in the presence of its chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
Congress senior leaders like former MLC K. Janardhan Reddy, who did not find a place in the new office bearers’ list, sitting MLC P. Sudhakar Reddy, whose nominees were ignored, and others are also upset.
“I have been a loyal party worker since 1976, but I was ignored by the leadership. I feel really hurt,” said Mr Janardhan Reddy. Mr Sudhakar Reddy too was quite upset over some of the names he suggested in Khammam and other places having been ignored.
“Only some leaders’ suggestions were taken into consideration and seniors like me were ignored. I had suggested some names of loyal party leaders for positions, but they were ignored. It is not right,” he said.
“When the party is not in power, we need to take everyone along. One cannot ignore senior and loyal workers and leaders. This will cause more harm than good,” he added. Even MP V. Hanumnatha Rao and other leaders were reportedly stumped at 31 member coordination committee which is normally constituted when a party is in power.
“Where is the need for coordination committee now? It is normally constituted when the party is in power and coordination between the government and party is need,” said a party leader. AICC had recently reconstituted TPCC office bearers with a 133-member body, including 13 vice-presidents, 31 general-secretaries, one treasurer, 35 executive members, 22 permanent invitees and 31 coordination committee members.
