Hyderabad: The Congress high command's emissaries, who were recently in Hyderabad to take stock of the party's position in Andhra Pradesh, was conveyed by state leaders that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy should be removed forthwith if the ruling party wants to stem its political slide.
Be it Ghulam Nabi Azad, Krishna Murthy or Vayalar Ravi, who were deputed by the party high command to study the party affairs in the state in the last three months, have been told that Reddy should not be allowed to continue as Chief Minister.
In the last two days he spent in Hyderabad, Union Minister Vayalar Ravi had received complaints against the Chief Minister. A handful of senior ministers, a group of MPs (from Telangana region), scores of MLAs and senior party leaders were demanded Kiran's removal.
"What has been ailing the Congress in AP in the last two years is a clear leadership crisis", was the message conveyed to Ravi.
Some state leaders also accused Reddy of promoting groupism in the party and discriminating between regions at a time when the party is grappling with Telangana issue, the MPs from the state alleged to Ravi, citing the release of "special grants" to select constituencies (going to by-polls in Andhra-Rayalaseema) which was never done in the case of those in Telangana.
The leaders also said the perceived rift between the CM and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana was harming the party.
"He (Kiran) is an introvert," Ravi reportedly remarked when a senior minister told him about the "unilateral" policy decisions taken by the Chief Minister.
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