HYDERABAD: Former minister and senior Congress leader S Santosh Reddy has demanded that APCC president D Srinivas should quit his post by owning up responsibility for the party’s defeat in the bypolls.
He told reporters at the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) office here today that if the Congress high command failed to deliver Telangana state the party would lose its existence in the region. He also demanded that the party leadership present their views before the Justice BN Srikrishna Committee and speed up the exercise to deliver the T-state.
However, he had to abruptly end his speech after power supply went off in the office. The CLP staff allegedly were behind the power cut.
Meanwhile, Congress senior leaders urged the Telangana youth not to commit suicides. Former home minister K Jana Reddy said the party leadership is committed to statehood. The Congress- led UPA government had appointed the Srikrishna Committee for this purpose, he said.
“We are not betrayers of Telangana. We will achieve statehood in a systematic way. If we fail to do so, we’ll quit politics the very next moment,” he said. The students and youth of the region should understand this, he urged.
Congress MP Komati Rajgopal Reddy said they are committed to the Telangana cause and hoped that the party leadership will deliver the state after completion of the ongoing exercise.
PCC spokesperson K Kamalakar Rao said Telangana sentiment won in the elections and at the same time the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was rejected by the people of the region.