Hyderabad, October 13: Former minister JC Diwakar Reddy, who had hoped to make it to the cabinet, turned philosophical today on pursuit of politics after the party president Sonia Gandhi deferred the exercise of reshuffle of the state cabinet.
“There is no room for despair and despondency in public life. If anyone has any such feelings, it is better he chooses some other field,” Diwakar Reddy said in response to mediapersons’ queries on the unsuccessful mission of the chief minister to Delhi.
Diwakar Reddy, at one point of time, wondered aloud whether the party did not need his experience in running the government. But he pulled himself together immediately and said that the present team of Rosaiah was doing exceedingly well. “Anyway, cabinet reshuffle is an issue that has to be decided by the party high command and the chief minister,’’ the senior leader admitted.
Asked if the reconstitution of the cabinet was deferred because the party feared the Jagan Mohan Reddy factor, Diwakar Reddy said he did not believe the party leadership would be scared of one individual.
–Agencies