Bickering in T Congress embarrasses Diggy

Hyderabad: Infighting in Telangana Congress came to the fore once again on Sunday in the presence of AICC leaders including party general secretary Digvijay Singh.

Party leaders who attended a review meeting on membership drive at Imperial Gardens in Secunderabad indulged in mutual acrimony. It all began with former Miryalaguda MP Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy who complained to Digvijay Singh that Rajya Sabha member Palvai Govardhan Reddy was responsible for his defeat in Lok Sabha elections. As the word spread that a complaint against Palvai was made, he rushed to the AICC general secretary. But leaders like the TPCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah, K Jana Reddy and others prevailed upon him from rebutting the charges saying that it would lead to unnecessary confrontation and that the high command knew everything.

But the veteran Congress leader expressed his ire over Komatireddy when they came face to face outside the meeting hall. Palvai told Komatireddy, “If you keep complaining against a person like me, you cannot come up in politics.”

Angry over this remark, Komatireddy stopped to give a reply but sensing that it could lead to an ugly situation, former minister and Greater Hyderabad Congress chief Danam Nagender intervened and whisked him away. V Hanumantha Rao told Digivijay that senior leaders like him were being ignored by the TPCC leadership.

His grouse was that he was not getting any information on the party programmes. He further told Digivijay and AICC Secretary Ramachandra Kuntia, that the party membership books were not being given to leaders like him. VH also attacked former ministers for not showing up at party events.

Rajya Sabha member Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar left the venue just when the review meeting chaired by Digvijay was about to start, complaining that “he has not received any invitation from the TPCC office for the programme.”