Munugode MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy has claimed that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao was recently upset over the earlier ‘etiquette’ meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and leaking reports of the impending by-elections to the media.
Talking to reporters here, the Congress MLA said that the Chief Minister is deliberately spreading false information about his resignation by using his newspapers and TV channels. He said that if there was a need to withdraw from his current party to defeat TRS, he would do so but only after consulting the people of his constituency.
He also claimed that all the newspapers were highlighting the meeting with Amit Shah as if he would resign soon and Munugode would see the by-poll. “The chief minister is desperate for by-polls in Munugode to ensure victory at any cost to highlight his declining image among the people,” he claimed.
Mr Reddy, however, did not specify whether he would join the Bharatiya Janata Party and resign as a Congress MLA, but continued to argue that only the BJP has the potential to defeat the TRS.
The Chief Minister has started review meetings with Munugode leaders at Pragati Bhavan, while he was talking to the media that they should be lured with money “wrongly” in anticipation of the by-polls, he said, adding that some The sarpanches have revealed that there will be money. He was released only after attending the meeting.
Mr Reddy said he had not criticized the Congress in the last three years, though he had some objections to certain decisions of the Congress high command hinting at the appointment of TPCC president A Revanth Reddy. “Even today I believe that the BJP has the potential to defeat the TRS, though I am a Congressman,” he said.
Praising AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and MP Rahul Gandhi, he said if there was a need to leave the Congress party, he would do so and thanked both for a separate Telangana state. When questioned about her not participating in the party’s protest against the Enforcement Directorate (ED), she questioned Sonia Gandhi despite her respect, remarking that “the law will take its own course”.