New Delhi, September 09: The Congress is working on a compromise to settle who will succeed late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash along with four persons on September 2.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that Congress Lok Sabha MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the son of the late chief minister, will be accommodated in the Central government and caretaker Chief Minister K Rosaiah will continue in his post.
Sources say that Rajya Sabha MP K V P Ramachandra Rao, who was considered to be the late chief minister’s right hand man, was assured YSR’s family will be taken care of when he met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. Rao is believed to have made a strong pitch for Jaganmohan at the meeting.
Veeraraghav TM, CNN-IBN’s Political Editor, South, reports that details of a plan for Jaganmohan are still being worked upon and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh will visit Hyderabad for this. The party realises that Jaganmohan has to be given some post and the party cannot afford to delay a decision for long.
The Andhra unit of the Congress wants Jaganmohan, 37, to be made the Chief Minister and on Sunday several ministers of the state cabinet refused to take oath of office unless he was given the post.
The ministers were forced to take oath after Congress high command stood firm. The Congress high command felt that Jagan, a first-time MP from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency, was inexperienced and making him Chief Minister would expose the party to allegations of perpetuating dynastic politics.
YSR, as the chief minister was popularly known, his special secretary, chief security officer and two pilots were killed on September 2, an hour after he took off from Hyderabad for Chittoor district to launch a mass contact programme.
–Agencies