Unperturbed by his party high command serving a showcause notice to him for deriding AICC supremo Sonia Gandhi, Congress veteran JC Diwakar Reddy on Thursday went a bit further and said the Congress leadership has lost mental balance.
Continuing his revolt, Reddy said, “It is absurd that a showcause notice is issued to a leader like me, who has been in the Congress for the last 40 years. It seems the Congress leadership has lost mental balance.”
The six-time MLA from Tadipatri Assembly segment in Anantapur district said he wanted to continue in the Congress, but PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana was hell-bent on necking him out.
“I want to stay in the party. But, PCC chief Botcha is firm on throwing me out of the party. What should I do now?” he questioned.
The Congress veteran made these remarks soon after the AICC state affairs incharge Digvijaya Singh said in Delhi that a showcause notice had been served on Diwakar Reddy for his caustic comments against Sonia Gandhi.
However, Reddy said he had not yet received any notice so far.
Later in the day, Diwakar Reddy called on chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Emerging from the meeting, he said he would wait till Jan 23, the deadline set by President Pranab Mukherjee to return the T-Bill to him, to take a final call on his future political move.
He, however, said, his ‘political heirs’ have became majors, and they would take their own political decisions.
Reddy, who claims to be a fourth generation Congress leader in his family, attracted the wrath of the AICC top brass for asking Sonia Gandhi to resign from party president’s post in the wake of the humiliating drubbing that the party has received in four states, in the recently held Assembly elections.
Ever since the Congress Working Committee decided to bifurcate the state, Reddy has been spewing venom on high command.
He has further intensified his attack on the AICC leadership after his efforts to convince it to form Rayala Telangana state went in vain.The Congress veteran repeatedly said he was not in a position to continue in the Congress.