The resignation came after she was excluded from the newly constituted Political Affairs Committee of the TPCC.
Published Dec 11, 2022 | 8:04 PM ⚊ Updated Dec 11, 2022 | 8:04 PM
Konda Surekha submitting her resignation. (Facebook)
The announcement of the newly constituted 18-member Political Affairs Committee of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) late on Saturday, 11 December, triggered dissent among senior party leaders with former minister from Warangal, Konda Surekha, submitting her resignation as TPCC executive committee member on Sunday.
The Congress high command announced the committee excluding senior leaders Surekha, J Geetha Reddy, and Congress MP Komatireddy Venkatareddy from the list.
While Surekha submitted her resignation, Venkatareddy said he would respond to the issue later.
In a letter addressed to the TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, Surekha said her family was in politics for the last 34 years and catering to the needs of the people and party workers.
“Our services to people brought much recognition to our family across the state,” she said.
Thousands of followers in the district and elsewhere in the state regularly meet the family.
“We organised the party activities in Warangal district with our own expenses,” Surekha, a former MLA of Warangal East, said.
But the Congress high command’s announcement brought much dissatisfaction since her family’s name or any other leader from Warangal was not included in the list, she said.
Juniors were nominated to the PAC while she was remained an executive committee member. Those who came from other parties and joined the Congress were included, along with some of who did not even contest the MLA election.
“This is nothing but ill-treating us. For me, self-respect is important. For the sake of former chief minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy’s family, I resigned as a minister,” she said, adding that her conscience did not accept continuing in the same post after the announcement of the new PAC.
Surekhha, however, said she and her husband Konda Murali would continue as ordinary party workers and work for the development of the Congress in the state.
In Nalgonda, Venkatareddy said he would respond on politics one month before the Assembly elections in the state.
“Currently, I am wearing a Congress scarf,” he said while speaking to media persons.
