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Several pro-Jagan MLAs from different districts threaten to resign

HYDERABAD: At least seven Congress MLAs from different districts have threatened to resign from the Assembly on Tuesday if a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) was not convened forthwith and Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy elected as its leader.

On a day when Mr. Jagan’s supporters become more aggressive, Minister for Women and Welfare Konda Surekha reiterated that she would quit the Cabinet of Chief Minister K. Rosaiah, though after supporting him at the CLP, if the high command wanted him to continue. She said Mr. Rosaiah was an interim Chief Minister while Mr. Jagan could be the Chief Minister for the whole term.

In Kadapa district, C. Adinarayana Reddy (Jammalamadugu), G. Srikanth Reddy (Rayachoti), P. Mary Kamalamma (Badvel) and K. Srinivasulu (Kodur) addressed a press conference where they set a deadline of two days for convening a CLP meeting after which they would put in their papers.

Another MLA from the district A. Amarnath Reddy (Rajampet) and Ms. M. Kavitha, who represents Mahabubabad in Warangal district, also said they would follow suit. Separately, Y. Venkateshwara Reddy, Congress MLA from Sattenapalli in Guntur district, sent in his resignation letter to the APCC president expressing anguish over the failure to convene a meeting of the CLP to pay homage to the late Rajasekhara Reddy.

Warangal district was witness to a violent clash between the supporters of Konda Surekha and DCC president G. Venkataramana Reddy following the latter’s statement that Mr. Rosaiah should continue as Chief Minister. Three persons were injured in the clash.

The Kadapa MLAs alleged that administration was paralysed ever since Reddy’s demise. They attacked V. Hanumantha Rao and K. Keshava Rao, MPs, for their ‘provocative statements’ which, they felt, amounted to an intention to create a division in the party.

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