Congress Leaders Object To Kandi Srinivas' Remarks On Party Ticket

Adilabad: In a surprise move, three senior Congress leaders joined hands against Kandi Srinivas Reddy, who recently switched from the BJP in Adilabad constituency.

DCC president Sajid Khan, former Adilabad market committee chairman Sanjeev Reddy and state TPCC general secretary Gandrath Sujatha strongly objected to Srinivas Reddy’s claims that he will get the Congress’ ticket with blessings from the high command.

The senior leaders said all ticket aspirants must work hard and support the candidate who will contest in the next elections.

Former minister and senior Congress leader Ch. Ramachandra Reddy said winning the elections is tough for any candidate without the support of other aspirants, stating that he lost when he contested as an independent candidate when Congress had denied him a ticket in the past.

Ramachandra Reddy said the Congress high command must only give tickets to those who have worked for the party for at least five years, in order to prevent discontent among other senior leaders.

He took the lead in targeting Srinivas Reddy and said that the high command had not promised a ticket to the latter and that Srinivas was misleading the party cadres.

Meanwhile, Ramachandra Reddy is pushing for his relative Sanjeev Reddy to get the ticket to contest the next elections from Adilabad.

It is unclear as to why Ramachandra Reddy and Sajid Khan did not raise the issue of ‘parachute leaders’ joining the Congress before Srinivas Reddy’s joining.
Srinivas joined the Congress recently in the presence of Priyanka Gandhi and TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy.

Rumours in the political circles are that Sajid Khan, Ramachandra Reddy and Sanjeev Reddy are talking about unity among ticket aspirants as their support base has started crumbling and they lost their control over the cadre and second-rung leaders. It is also believed that the leaders are not being patronised by the Meanwhile, dissenting leaders within the Congress were organising programmes on their own and reaching out to the public without backing from the senior leaders.