Will Kiran's resignation turns a joke?

HYDERABAD: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's reported plan to quit his post has become a butt of ridicule among Congress leaders, particularly his detractors in the party.

As Kiran Reddy is still wary of carrying out his threat of resigning from his post in protest against Centre's recent move of introducing the same T-bill, sent to the State Legislature, in Parliament, his critics in the party have begun making mockery of the chief minister's proposed resignation.

Even as Kiran Reddy's arch rival and his deputy C Damodara Rajanarasimha has been challenging him to resign from the top post if had any ethical values, another known critic of the chief minister, rural development minister Dokka Manikya Vara Prasada Rao on Saturday made fun of Kiran's proposed 'resignation'.

Speaking to reporters at the CLP office here, Vara Prasad threw political satires at his boss, saying, 'Floating a new political party is not as easy as holding press conferences. Kiran Reddy only holds press meets but not a new party'.

Further scorning at his boss, the minister said Kiran always claimed that he would resign, but he did not have the courage to step down.

'Kiran's stature and my stature are almost same. We both are constituency-level leaders. However, thinking that we are staunch loyalists of the party, our party high command has made me and Kiran as minister and chief minister respectively,' he said.

Touching the raw nerve in the chief minister, Vara Prasad said Kiran was burning the midnight oil to clear various pending files in his office so as to implement welfare schemes. But, those schemes were not properly reaching the targeted sections of people.

Meanwhile, Telangana Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar and MLA Komatireddy Venkat Reddy too dared Kiran Reddy to quit if he had any guts.

Stating that Kiran Reddy was resorting to anti-party activities, by holding meetings at his camp office with expelled and suspended MPs from the Congress, Ponnam requested his party high command to sack Kiran from his post and then suspend him from the party in a prelude to expelling him forever.

Stating that they (Telangana MPs) had not attacked any MP from Seemandhra on the day when the T-bill was tabled in Lok Sabha, Prabhakar demanded the Lok Sabha secretariat to release the video footages of the incident so as to make the people know what happened in the House on that 'fateful day'.

He demanded lifetime debarment of the Seemandhra MPs such as Lagadapati Rajagopal and M Venugopal Reddy from electoral politics for resorting to unruly acts in Lok Sabha.