Senior Congress leader and Sangareddy MLA Toorpu Jayaprakash Reddy alias Jagga Reddy has announced his resignation from the Congress party.
He wrote a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi stating that he would soon resign from the Pradesh Congress Committee working president post and also the primary membership of the party.
Jagga Reddy, however, did not reveal when he is going to resign and what he is going to after that.
He regretted that he was being branded as a covert of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the Congress just because he had advised the PCC leadership to mend its ways.
“I have told the party high command that I am out of the Congress party, as I cannot bear this humiliation anymore,” he said.
Jagga Reddy said he had been continuing in the party despite his financial constraints and if he really wanted, he would have defected to the other parties long ago.
He also blamed it on the Congress high command for dividing the combined Andhra Pradesh.
“I told the party high command that the party would lose heavily if the combined state was divided. But it did not listen to my advice. Now, the Congress is facing the loss as predicted by me,” he said.
Stating that he had suffered humiliation in the party despite his service, Jagga Reddy alleged that Revanth Reddy had become the PCC chief only because of his sudden lobbying.
Referring to Revanth, he said those who had damaged the party in Huzurabad by-elections were the real coverts.
He reminded that he had spent crores of rupees in holding the public meeting of Rahul Gandhi at Sangareddy in 2017, when nobody came forward.
“The Congress was strengthened after the meeting. Yet, I am being branded as a covert,” he said.
In the morning, several Congress leaders requested Jagga Reddy not to resign from the party.
Senior leader and former MP V Hanumantha Rao went to Jagga Reddy’s place and urged him to stay back in the Congress.
Though Jagga Reddy appeared to have withdrawn his decision in the morning, he declared in the afternoon that he was resigning from the party.
