Heated exchanges at Gandhi Bhavan

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 2. Heated exchanges were witnessed between Mrs. Renuka Chowdary, MP, and senior Congress leaders in Gandhi Bhavan on Monday on the question of selecting party candidates from Khammam district for the mandal and zilla parishad elections.

It was a fall-out of a protest lodged by party MLAs from Khammam that the list of candidates she had submitted had been approved by the PCC leadership. This ran contrary to the earlier assurance given by the leadership to leave the choice of candidates entirely to the MLAs.

Messrs. S. Chandrasekhar, R. Venkat Reddy and Younis Sultan, Congress MLAs from Khammam district, met the PCC president, Mr. M. Satyanarayana Rao, and the CLP leader, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, today to demand scrapping of the list given by Mrs. Chowdary. The leaders invited the Khammam MP to Gandhi Bhavan to discuss the matter. During the discussion, Mrs. Chowdary reportedly got upset over the attempt to change her list and walked out from the meeting after exchanging angry remarks with the MLAs. The Congress MLAs returned to their districts after the leadership changed some candidates to their satisfaction.

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