The Hindu : Congress workers stick to their guns

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Sunday, Mar 28, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Congress workers stick to their guns

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MARCH 27. Calm prevailed at Gandhi Bhavan on Saturday, a day after the unsavoury incident of slogan-shouting protestors burning down a curtain and breaking glass panes of windows, with various dissenting groups avoiding demonstrations, the senior leaders having again gone to Delhi for short-listing of candidates.

But the relay hunger strike by the city Congress workers on the premises entered the second day. They said they were determined to continue the fast till the city Congress president, Anjan Kumar Yadav, was allotted a ticket to contest from some Assembly constituency in Secunderabad Parliamentary Constituency, preferably Himayatnagar segment.

The senior party leader and former Union Minister, P. Shiv Shankar, called on the agitated workers to assuage their feelings.

K. Nagaraju Goud, coordinator of the AP Youth Congress and one of the fasting supporters, said Mr. Shiv Shankar agreed that the Backward Classes should have been given more seats, especially Mr. Yadav, who had organised several party programmes.

Mr. Goud said Mr. Shiv Shankar, who is also chairman of the AICC Backward Classes Cell, told the fasting workers that allotment of seats was not done properly.

He was not involved in the selection of candidates and that the AP Congress Committee president, D. Srinivas, and the former Congress Legislature Party leader, Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy, were the two leaders who were mainly responsible.

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