Former MLA Vishnu Vardhan Reddy expressed his displeasure and resigned from the Congress after the party allotted the Jubilee Hills ticket to former MP and cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin.
This move from the state branch of the national party comes at a time when its general secretary Vishnu Vardhan Reddy was assaulted with a slipper by a fellow TV panelist.
Kolikapudi Srinivasa Rao, an activist working against the trifurcation of Amaravati, removed his slipper and hit BJP's Andhra Pradesh general secretary Vishnu Vardhan Reddy during the political debate.