Defying TPCC orders, Hanumantha Rao meets Yashwant Sinha

Hyderabad: The split is wide open in the State Congress unit. The TPCC leadership’s decision to skip meeting with Opposition Parties Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha, who had arrived in the city on Saturday, has kicked up a row in the party. Defying the TPCC’s plans, former MP V Hanumantha Rao met Yashwant Sinha while Chief […]

Hyderabad: The split is wide open in the State Congress unit. The TPCC leadership’s decision to skip meeting with Opposition Parties Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha, who had arrived in the city on Saturday, has kicked up a row in the party. Defying the TPCC’s plans, former MP V Hanumantha Rao met Yashwant Sinha while Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao welcomed him at Begumpet airport.

This has not gone well with TPCC president A Revanth Reddy and said stern action would be taken against leaders, if they violated party rules. He also said such leaders would be thrashed to the wall. Addressing media persons, the TPCC president said State Congress leaders would not meet any leader, who meets TRS leaders. Yashwant Sinha was Trinamool Congress’s candidate and not Congress candidate, he said.

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Throwing his weight behind the former MP, Sangareddy MLA T Jagga Reddy said there were no instructions from TPCC over skipping the meeting with Yashwant Sinha.

“There was neither a meeting nor were there any TPCC directions in this regard. How can the TPCC leader use such language before the media and in what capacity will he take action?” questioned Jagga Reddy.

He found fault with the TPCC for failing to meet the Opposition Parties Presidential candidate. The State leadership along with Congress Legislative Party should have invited Yashwant Sinha and held a meeting, he said.