Naidu needs me as much as i need him, says JC

HYDERABAD: Former Congress strongman and Anantapur TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy, who is always in the thick of controversies seems to have invited trouble again, with his comments: ''Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu needs my services. Similarly, I need the support of Naidu. It is for this reason that both of us had joined hands before the elections.''

He said that Chandrababu cannot do anything against his wish in Anantapur district. ''Paritala Sunitha may be a minister. But it is I who will dictate terms in Anantapur district,' Diwakar Reddy said.

He made it clear that he would never wear yellow shirt (the symbolic colour of TDP) in his life. ''I do not have yellow shirts. I wore the TDP kanduva only while joining the party and during poll campaign,'' he pointed out.

Diwakar Reddy, who was with Congress for more than three decades and joined the TDP before polls, preferred to sit in the CLP office with former minister P Shankar Rao.

He was behaving as if he was still with the Congress and surprisingly no one raised objection of his sitting in the CLP office. Interestingly he criticised Congress leadership and went on cracking jokes on the state Congress leaders sitting in the CLP office.

Raghuveera Responsible for Congress Rout in AP

Continuing his tirade against the Congress leadership, Anantapur TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy blamed APCC chief N Raghuveera Reddy for the debacle of the Congress party in Seemandhra in the recently held polls.

Speaking to reporters in the assembly premises here on Thursday, Diwakar Reddy alleged that Raghuveera Reddy conspired with YSR Congress leaders to defeat Congress candidates.

''Raghuveera Reddy told party workers that the party would lose the polls and so instead of voting for the party candidates they should vote for YSRC candidates,'' he alleged.

'There is no future for Congress and YSRC in AP as TDP and BJP will dominate the state politics', he remarked. Coming down heavily on the Congress leadership for dividing the state, the former Congress leader said that the party has lost the confidence of the people of the country and any amount of hard work and strategies would not help it to make a comeback.

'No one can save the Congress. The era of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi was over. There will be no use even if Priyanka Gandhi enters active politics,' Diwakar Reddy said.