Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's decision to resign from the primary membership of the Congress party is seen as an attempt to preempt the expected disciplinary action against him by the high command.
Jaganmohan Reddy, in his resignation letter addressed to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, had listed out attempts to split his family and hijack the legacy of his father, former chief minister late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, as some of the reasons which had "forced" him to take the decision.
Attempts to split the family were all too evident after his uncle Y S Vivekananda Reddy set up camp in New Delhi and categorically stated that he was in the race for a ministerial berth. This, and the subsequent increasing proximity of staunch YSR-loyalist KVP Ramachandra Rao to the new chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, were seen as the deciding factors.
Y S Jagan's move will now undoubtedly put fence-sitters into a position of discomfiture. They will now have to clarify where their loyalties lie - whether with the Congress or with YSR's family.
The resignation also comes at a time when the signs of disciplinary action became too evident, with Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy
stating that this action was imminent.
Indications that Jaganmohan Reddy would opt to quit than face the disciplinary action were all too visible, especially when the recent comments made by the Kadapa MP, who said that his supporters were urging him to quit the Congress on those grounds, are taken into account.
His supporters also believe that the Congress is wary of people accepting Jagan as the rightful political heir to the political legacy of his father.
Courtesy: INN