Vijayawada: Cong demands anti-CAA motion

Vijayawada: The new executive committee of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee which met here on Wednesday with APCC president Dr Sake Sailajanath and working presidents Dr N Tulasi Reddy and Shaik Mastan Vali resolved demanding the State government to pass a resolution in the State Cabinet meeting and in the Assembly that the National People's Register (NPR) would not be implemented in the State.

The committee also appealed to the Centre to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the judgement that reservations in the promotions to the SCs, STs are not fundamental right and the Constitution should be amended to make the promotions fundamental right.

The committee congratulated former APCC chief Dr Raghuveera Reddy for handling the party effectively during troubled times. The APCC thanked Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for appointing educated, young and dynamic Dalit leader Dr S Sailajanath as APCC chief.

In another resolution, the committee expressed condolences to the families of those who died in the Delhi riots.

Dr Tulasi Reddy and Shaik Mastan Vani addressing newsmen said that the erstwhile TDP government and the present YSRCP government deceived the people on the capital city.

They said that the Congress would contest all the seats in the forthcoming elections to the local bodies. The party would be strengthened from village level by appointing district and mandal committees in which major share would be given to the youth, SC, ST, minorities and women.

AICC general secretary Oommen Chandy, secretaries Meyyappan, Christopher, Koppula Raju, JD Seelam, Gidugu Rudraraju, Sirivella Prasad, KVP Ramachandra Rao, AP Mahila Congress president Ramani Kumari and others attended the executive committee meeting.