HYDERABAD: Former MP V Hanumantha Rao, on Saturday, wrote a letter to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi requesting her to send AICC observers rather than depending on the lone TPCC in-charge Manickam Tagore, for selecting the next TPCC president.
Hanumantha Rao, who represents the BC community, has been assertive in demanding the TPCC chief’s post for some time.
He has accused Malkajgiri Congress MP Revanth Reddy’s followers of intimidating him with threatening calls. The former MP has openly criticised current TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy for failing to condemn those behind the calls. CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has also been in his line of fire.
On Saturday, Hanumantha Rao wrote to Manickam Tagore and complained about the CLP leader’s failure to highlight the issue of Agriculture Bills and farmers’ woes in the last Assembly session. “He has totally failed to take up the issue, much to the anguish of the farming community.” Earlier on Saturday, to make his presence felt, Hanumantha Rao met Chief Justice N V Ramana, following Uttam Kumar’s visit to the Raj Bhavan to meet the CJI.