Congress needs immediate surgery for fresh lease of life: Komatireddy

Hyderabad, June 4: Alleging that some 15 to 20 senior Congress leaders were passing the time by thinking they will be Chief Ministerial candidate in the next elections, Nalgonda MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy lashed out at the Telangana Congress party leadership for day dreaming. He said the Congress party in Telangana needed immediate surgery. Otherwise, the party should get ready for post mortem. Speaking to the media after meeting Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao here on Saturday, Komatireddy targeted PCC Chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy. Venkat Reddy alleged that the present PCC Chief was more inefficient than the former PCC Chief Ponnala Laxmaiah. He demanded Uttam to tender resignation owning responsibility for the failure of the party in the recent elections. He said that the party faced defeat in the recent elections just because of party leadership’s laziness and lack of seriousness. He said that he would have made the party win the election, or he would have tendered resignation owning responsibility of party candidate’s defeat. He said that he would address a letter to the AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi on the party condition in the state. He said that the party will not get strengthened if the party leadership addresses press meets while sitting in Gandhi Bhavan. He said that his brother Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy lost MP election in 2014 general elections just because of Uttam Kumar Reddy’s group politics. Uttam Kumar Reddy distributed money in three constituencies only to defeat Rajagopal Reddy, he asserted. He demanded the party high command to announce the Chief Minister candidate’s name now. He also suggested party high command to appoint a person, who fought for the sake of separate Telangana state, as PCC Chief.