New Delhi, November 29: Chief Minister K Rosaiah was Saturday nominated as the Congress Legislature Party leader by party chief Sonia Gandhi, bringing down the curtains on the issue of sucessor to the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy who died in a helicopter crash more than two months ago.
Gandhi nominated the 77- year-old Rosiah a day after the CLP had authorised her to take the decision.
“In accordance with the unanimous resolution of the CLP of Andhra Pradesh, the AICC president is pleased to nominate K Rosaiah as the leader of the Congress Legisl ature Par t y i n Andhra Pradesh,’’ senior leader M Veerappa Moily said. The announcement by Moily came after he and another senior leader Pranab Mukherjee met Gandhi.
Gandhi s decision was on expected lines after the Congress High Command managed to mollify the Jagan camp by giving YSR’s widow YS Vijayalaxmi a ticket for the Assembly bypoll from Pulivendula.
–PTI