Congress can’t be ignored: Raghuveera

Vijayawada: APCC president N Raghuveera Reddy here on Monday asserted that the party could not be ignored in national politics. “Some people like Congress and some dislike it. But, they cannot ignore it,” he said while speaking at ‘meet the press’ programme organized by the AP Union of Working Journalists

He maintained that the party would bounce back whenever there was a break. It would continue to be with people. ‘The difference is that it will be in power for some years and in opposition for some more years,’ Raghuveera remarked.

The APCC chief, who is on a bus yatra from Srikakulam, said it had covered six coastal districts in the last three days. ‘We have started the bus yatra to give a moral boost to party workers. But we are surprised to note that the activists are stronger than leaders.

Raghuveera said he had directed the DCC presidents to collect names of aspirants to APCC by March 29. The APCC would meet them on March 29 at Indira Bhavan, in Hyderabad, and collect the list, which would forwarded to the high command for clearance. The list would be released in the first week of April. APCC Campaign Committee chairman K Chiranjeevi faulted legislators and ministers for deserting the party. Leaders have to take up the challenge of facing elections. On the merger of his PRP with the Congress, Chiru said he had joined the Congress after the exit of ‘the most corrupt person’, without naming Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

He advised youth to stay in their respective districts in Seemandhra for developing the headquarters as major cities. ‘We can have more than a dozen Hyderabads in Seemandhra’. He blamed former Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for ‘misleading’ people by misrepresenting facts on State’s bifurcation. ‘The bifurcation would help in faster development of the region,’ Chiranjeevi stated.