Komatireddy bros create ruckus at Congress meet

Hyderabad: The ongoing differences among the Congress senior leaders came to the fore during the day-long training camp for Congress workers in Shamshabad on Saturday. Amid speculations that the Komatireddy brothers are likely to join the BJP soon, Nalgonda MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and his brother MLC Rajagopal Reddy were not invited on to the stage.

Interestingly, the organisers, while ignoring the Komatireddy brothers, invited Renuka Chowdary on to the dais though she had come late to the meeting. Upset over this, the followers of Komatireddy brothers had shown slippers to the leaders at the meeting.

The Nalgonda MLA said that though they were there for about two hours, the TPCC president did not invite them on to the stage. This enraged the Congress workers and they raised the slogans and some had shown the chappals, he said.

While the supporters of Komatireddy brothers shouted slogans saying “Uttam Hatao Congress Bachao,” supporters of the TPCC president raised counter-slogans demanding the ouster of Komatireddy brothers. Both Uttam Kumar Reddy and AICC Secretary R C Khuntia were seen pacifying the agitated Congress workers. When asked about it, Venkat Reddy denied that either he or his brother were planning to join the BJP.

He said they have been in the Congress for over three decades and were not going to join any other party. “In fact, I am getting ready to launch padayatra across the state to expose the failures of the TRS government,” he said. At the same time, he said he was not upset over the treatment that was meted out to him and his brother. It is just a matter of time before many changes would take place in the TPCC, he added. While refusing to elaborate, he hinted that there could be a change in the state leadership in October.