APCC to rope in Sonia for special status fight

To intensify struggle against the NDA government on special status, the APCC will organise round-table meetings in different parts of the State

- N Raghuveera Reddy

Hyderabad: The AP Congress Committee on Friday decided to seek AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s active participation in the fight for special status to Andhra Pradesh at field level. Sonia is likely to tour Andhra Pradesh and attend public meetings in Vijayawada, Visakhaptnam and Tirupati soon.

APCC president N Raghuveera Reddy held party’s coordination committee meeting attended by senior leaders K Chiranjeevi, M M Pallam Raju, Botcha Satyanarayana and others at the party head office Indira Bhavan here on Friday.

The meeting adopted a resolution thanking Sonia Gandhi for raising the special status issue in the just concluded Parliament budget session. The leaders felt that Sonia’s speech on special status in Lok Sabha gave a fillip to the party which was routed in the 2014 election. The APCC was planning to organise Sonia’s one-day visit to AP in the next two months.

Speaking to newsmen after the meeting, Raghuveera Reddy said to intensify struggle against the NDA government on special status the APCC would organise round- table meetings in different parts of the state where the leaders would also discuss Polavaram issue. He said than an extended meeting of the party would be held in Visakhaptnam on April 9 where the party would chalk out future action plan.