Senior Telangana legislative council member of the Congress and former minister T Jeevan Reddy on Thursday said he was deeply hurt and disgusted with the developments in the Congress and wanted the party to decide whether he should continue in the party or not.
Jeevan Reddy wrote a letter to this effect to All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge and sent its copies to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and chief minister A Revanth Reddy.
He alleged that the state party was not only encouraging defection of MLAs from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, but also giving them undue importance in the Congress, ignoring the genuine Congress party workers.
Jeevan Reddy expressed concern over the growing atrocities by the defected BRS MLAs in their respective constituencies, targeting sincere Congress leaders and cadre, who had been striving hard for the party for several decades.
The MLA said he was deeply hurt with the murder of his close follower Gangi Reddy, allegedly by a follower of sitting Jagitial MLA M Sanjay Kumar who had recently defected from the BRS into the Congress.
“Sanjay Kumar should disclose whether the accused was his follower or not and whether or not he had campaigned for the BRS in the last elections. I am not able to digest the present political situation in the state Congress, which is plagued by a series of defections from the BRS. It is causing me a lot of mental agony and stress,” he said.
The former minister alleged that the Congress had been ill-treating him, despite the fact that he had served the party for over four decades.
“Now, it is for the party to decide my future course of action. I don’t want to quit the party, but I am spending sleepless nights thinking how long I should continue to suffer humiliation in the party,” he lamented.
He demanded that the Congress should give clarification on whether it would continue to encourage defections into the party.
