Being the first AICC session after the CWC decision on Telangana, Friday’s one-day session puts a problem in the form of AP bifurcation before the Congress managers.
Despite high-command’s keenness to avoid flare-ups at the session, the Seemandhra MPs refuse to relent and they want to attend the AICC session come what may. At least two of the six MPs – Lagadapati Rajagopal and Sabbam Hari – have asserted that it is their right to attend the party meeting.
Other four MPs who invited high-command’s ire by giving notice of No-Trust motion in the winter session of Parliament, were also not issues passes to the AICC session. They include - Vundavalli Aruna Kumar, Rayapati Samba Siva Rao, Sai Pratap, Harsha Kumar.
Lagadapati said he will take up the issue of entry passes with top Congress leaders. He is keen to stage a Dharna in front of the Talkatora stadium, the venue of the AICC session.
Speaking in Visakhapatnam, Sabbam Hari said they have been refused passes since they will raise the ‘Samaikyandhra’ issue.
Meanwhile, equal attention goes to the absence of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy at Thursday’s CWC meeting and at the AICC session on Friday.
The CWC meeting is taking place in the run-up to elections and usually, Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states, PCC chiefs and CLP leaders are usually invited to the meeting. In fact, all CMs and PCC chiefs attended Thursday’s CWC meeting.
It is most likely that Chief Ministers will be seated on the dais on the eve of AICC session. And CM Kiran will be more conspicuous by his absence from the crucial AICC session on Friday.
However, CM Kiran’s attitude towards the AICC headquarters has been on similar lines since the recent past. Kiran excused himself from the press conference Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi addressed after chairing a meeting of Congress chief ministers last month. Rahul himself explained his absence then, saying that CM Kiran informed him about a family engagement back in Hyderabad.
In a coincidence, flexi-boards with slogans of ‘Samaikyandhra’ have cropped up in all 13 districts of coastal Andhra and Rayala Seema.
The Congress managers might have feared that the rule-book approach of Seemadnhra MPs at the session will definitely spell trouble. For instance, Lagadapati requested AICC to pass a private resolution on reversing the T decision.
Citing rules in the party constitution for moving a non- official resolution, he had said, "In the national interest, we oppose further division of states. It is resolved to reverse the July 30, 2013 CWC Resolution of requesting the central government to take steps in accordance with the Constitution of India to form a separate state of Telangana."
Political observers say that the “gradual parting of ways” by CM Kiran might be a measured plan, so that Kiran can chart his own course as the 2014 General elections and Assembly elections approach. And if at all, Kiran “has to” come out of the Congress set-up and lead a political outfit to face elections, the life of that outfit will depend on Congress only.
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