Narsampet YSRCP leader quits party

Warangal: Television anchor turned politician and Narsampet YSR Congress coordinator Boddireddy Rani Rudrama has quit the party. In this connection she made an announcement here on Sunday. ‘The u-turn and the anti-Telangana stand taken by YSRCP have made me to quit the party’, she told press persons adding that the party has backtracked on its resolution that ‘the party would not oppose the formation of Telangana’ made at the plenary meeting held at Idupulapaya.

‘When planned to join politics I chose YSRCP because it was born out of the sacrifices made by Telangana leader Konda Surekha and also believed that the party would not go back on its plenary commitment towards Telangana. ‘As a daughter of the soil I could not continue in the party that does not care for the aspirations of the people here,’ Rani Rudrama said.
The outgoing leader claimed that she strove to strengthen the party in Narsampet constituency and worked for the party’s victory in the just concluded gram panchayat elections and cooperative elections.

‘For the past 15 days I waited for the party to change its stand but in vain and now I am quitting the party’. The statement by Congress was a result of decades of fight and sacrifices by Telangana people but the YSRCP was planning to hamper it by its dubious slogan of ‘equal justice’ .

Rani Rudrama expressed anguish over the remarks made by the party leader Sharmila who compared Hyderabad with Pakistan. ‘The comments were an insult to the culture and tradition of the city where religious harmony has been a way of living’. The reported decision by YS Vijayalakshmi to take up indefinite hunger strike from August 19 against the formation Telangana was the culmination of the party’s anti-Telangana attitude, she said. Replying to a query, Rani Rudrama said she had not yet decided on her political future.