Vijayawada, September 27: Chief Minister K Rosaiah does not feel there is a need to call the meeting of the Congress Legislature Party to elect its leader or that a situation will arise where he will have to prove his strength on the floor of the house. “I don’t think such a situation will arise. Even the Governor does not feel so,” he said.
Replying to questions at a news conference here on Friday, Rosaiah, on the demand for making Jagan Mohan Reddy the next chief minister, said he did not find anything objectionable in it. “It is not going to create any problem to me. But it is for the party high command to take a decision on the issue,” he said.
But, he said, neither the Congress nor its president Sonia Gandhi was in the habit of changing chief ministers, indicating that he was preparing for a longer innings.
“I have made it clear earlier and I am repeating now that I am a loyal soldier of the party and would abide by whatever decision the party takes,” he said. Asked if a new DGP is being posted and the term of the present chief secretary being extended, Rosaiah said he was yet to decide on them.
Referring to the unfinished agenda of the late YSR, Rosaiah said he would address the problem of delivery of services to the people which Reddy used to tell him about.
On rice, he said, “Procurement has come down because of drought. But there is no shortage. Centre allowed procurement from the open market.”
–Agencies–