Hyderabad, June 03: The emphatic instructions from the Congress Central leadership to Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy against resuming his Odarpu Yatra in the State notwithstanding, his camp followers are still hopeful of securing the high command’s goahead for the Srikakulam leg scheduled for June 8.
Talking to newsmen near Jaganmohan’s Banjara Hills residence here, loyalist and Rayachoti MLA Srikant Reddy claimed that “discussions” were taking place with the party high command in this connection. The Kadapa MP would decide on the tour at an “appropriate time”, he added.
Meanwhile, MIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi met Jaganmohan to discuss the political developments in the State. It is learnt that Owaisi has extended “moral support” to the Kadapa MP. He is also believed to have conveyed his assessment of the situation in the State to Ahmed Patel, political advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in a recent interaction in New Delhi.
Mines minister B Srinivasa Reddy, former minister and MLA K Surekha and her husband and MLC K Murali were among those who met Jaganmohan today.
Earlier in the day, Health minister D Nagender, one among the ministers who defended the Rosaiah Government in handling the Mahabubabad incident yesterday, asserted that the Kadapa MP was not “alone”, that he was a member of the “Congress family” and “we (the ministers) all want him to grow.”
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and Secunderabad Cantonment MLA P Shankar Rao urged Jaganmohan to follow in the footsteps of his father the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy by abiding by the directives of the party high command and desist from the Srikakulam tour.
“He is a young and dynamic leader and has a very bright future,” he added on a placatory note.
——-Agencies