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Congress drops further action against A.P. Minister

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NEW DELHI: Even as there are reports that Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has referred to the ethics committee, the resignation of Congress Lok Sabha member from Vijayawada L. Rajagopal on the Telangana issue, the Congress high command has decided “not to proceed further” on the show cause notice issued to Mr. Rajagopal and Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy.

“We got the reply from both of them and we are satisfied. Hence we have decided not to proceed further [on the disciplinary proceedings]” said Congress media department chairman Janardhan Dwivedi.

Talking to The Hindu here on Monday, Mr. Dwivedi, who is also in charge of party organisational matters, said the Congress leadership was yet to receive reply from the Congress MP from Nizamabad, Madhu Goud Yaskhi, who too was issued notice seeking clarification for his statement “violating party rules.”

While Mr. Venkat Reddy and Mr. Yaskhi are from the Telangana region, Mr. Rajagopal is from the Andhra region of the State.

All three of them were issued notice by the high command for their statements on the Telangana issue, based on the recommendations of party general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh and Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily and with approval of party president Sonia Gandhi, for “issuing statements in a manner which was found to lower the image of the party.”

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