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Veteran Congress leaders lock horns with high command
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Veteran Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana locked horns with the party high command on the AICCs decision to revamp the State party units with young leaders by keeping the senior leaders away from active role in the party affairs.
Hyderabad: Veteran Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana locked horns with the party high command on the AICC’s decision to revamp the State party units with young leaders by keeping the senior leaders away from active role in the party affairs.
Sources said that AP Congress leaders K V P Ramachander Rao, Panabaka Lakshmi and Mohammad Jani along with TS leaders met party president Sonia Gandhi in this regard. Hinting a change, AICC leader R C Khuntia admits that Congress is determined to infuse young blood to strengthen the party from the grass-root level.
Following serious indications that the Congress high command will form new working committees for the two States soon by removing all the senior leaders (aged above 60 years), several of them approached the AICC leaders including party president Sonia Gandhi and expressed their resentment over the new proposal approved by the AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Even though, senior leaders welcomed the promotion of new generation leaders in the party in the two States, where the Congress is on the verge of extinction, but opposed the neglect of the seniors in the allocation of posts in the party committees. Sources said along with AP Congress leaders, V Hanmantha Rao, T Jeevan Reddy, Nandi Yellaiah and Renuka Chaudhary from Telangana Congress requested Sonia Gandhi recently to give equal prominence to senior leaders.
They informed the party high command that many senior leaders already left the party after the Congress rout in 2014 elections. Keeping away the seniors from the party activites will further weaken the Congress in two States as some of them already joined ruling parties in the two States. Former PCC chief and senior most Congress leader from Telangana D Srinivas and another APCC Chief from Andhra Botcha Satyanarayana already quit the party.
AICC Secretary R C Khuntia told The Hans India the high command wanted to infuse young blood into the party and appoint young leaders from Backward, SC, ST and Minority communities for various committees in two States. “Some leaders leaving the party doesn’t affect Congress and party will be strengthened from the grass-root level by promoting new leaders at all levels,” he adds..
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