Several TRS leaders today slammed TPCC head A Revanth Reddy for his
recent comments against those who had defected from the Congress.
Speaking to the media along with the fellow MLA G Venkata Ramana Reddy, MLA D Sudheer Reddy said that the CLP had been merged with the TRS as per existing constitutional provisions, and that there was nothing wrong with this.
Saying that the defectors themselves would beat Revanth Reddy and his supporters with chappals (slippers) if the latter stoned them, Sudheer Reddy alleged that Revanth Reddy had become the PCC chief by giving a bribe of Rs 25 crore to AICC state in-charge Manickam Tagore.
He also claimed that senior Congress leaders were disappointed at the way the post of TPCC chief had been bought. Commenting on the prospects of the grand old party, the leader added that it would never come to power in Telangana in the future.
Venkata Ramana Reddy also flayed the TPCC head and asked whether he himself would have remained in the Congress if had he not gotten a high post. Like Sudheer Reddy, he too claimed that the CLP and the TRS merger was entirely constitutional.
The MLA then asked Revanth Reddy who he had given his resignation letter to while he was switching from the TDP to the Congress after securing a public office, and why he had not handed in his papers to the Assembly speaker as per the rules.
"The leaders of our party will teach him a lesson and he will face serious action for his comments against Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao," the two leaders of the pink party warned.
TRS whip Balka Suman too hit out at the new TPCC chief for his "combative" attitude, and advised, "Revanth Reddy should stop making negative comments against KCR and our government. If he does not cease to do so, he will face action."
This string of rebukes comes after Revanth Reddy yesterday made a shocking demand of his fellow party leaders in asking them to "stone" all defectors leaving the party after becoming public representatives.