Now, Medchal Malkajgiri Congress president quits the party
Medchal-Malkajgiri Congress president Nandikanti Sridhar’s resignation from the party on Monday is being seen not just a blow to the party
Hyderabad: Barely days after Mynampally Hanumanth Rao joined the Congress, the party has lost one of its strongest leaders in the Medchal-Malkajgiri constituency, which could deal a severe blow to whatever prospects it had in the region.
Medchal-Malkajgiri Congress president Nandikanti Sridhar’s resignation from the party on Monday is being seen not just a blow to the party, but also for Mynampally in ensuring at least votes from within the Congress.
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Sridhar, a BC community leader, has a stronghold in Malkajgiri constituency and has been serving the Congress for 35 years. He has also been enjoying the support of all communities in the constituency.
Sridhar’s resignation has left Congress leaders in the constituency pointing out that the development could cast an adverse impact on the party’s prospects there in the forthcoming elections.
Before shooting off his resignation letter to AICC Chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sridhar held a meeting with nearly 1000 fellow leaders and workers from the BC communities and other communities at a private function hall at Moula Ali.
When he sought their opinions, all the leaders and workers are said to have spoke against the party leadership which handed over the seat to Mynampally and asked Sridhar to quit the party. They were miffed with the high command and State leadership for ignoring Sridhar’s loyalty to the party and for extending a red carpet welcome to Mynampally.
In his resignation letter to AICC Chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sridhar said there was injustice to BC community leaders in the Congress.
In 2018, Nandikanti Sridhar had aspired to contest from Malkajgiri constituency on the Congress ticket but was denied a seat by the party leadership. This time, he was confident that party high command would offer him ticket to contest the ensuing elections. But all his aspirations were dashed after Mynampally’s entry into the Congress.
“Mynampally Hanumantha Rao, who has filed illegal cases against Congress workers in the past, joined the Congress just a few days back. Yet, the party is offering two tickets to him, ignoring my loyalty. This is injustice not just to me but to the entire BC community. The Congress is anti BC community and is favouring only OCs and upper castes,” Sridhar said in the letter.
For the Congress, this is actually a double blow, since Sridhar has quit the party just a day after Medak Congress president Kantareddy Tirupati Reddy resigned from the party, questioning how the party leadership could assure Mynampally two tickets, including one for his son Rohit from Medak.
They also questioned the party’s commitment in implementing the Udaipur Declaration of allotting only one ticket per family.
