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Jagan
quits Congress with mother, also resigns as MP
Monday November 29, 2010 01:58:33 PM ,
IANS
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Hyderabad/New Delhi: Fourteen months after Y.S.
Rajasekhara Reddy died in a helicopter crash, his son Y.S.
Jaganmohan Reddy Monday resigned from the Congress and from
parliament. Jagan's mother Vijayalakshmi also quit the Congress as
well as her Andhra Pradesh assembly seat.
However, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters in the
national capital that he has no "information on the matter so
far".
The office of the Lok Sabha speaker also said there was no
"official intimation about Jagan's resignation" from parliament.
In a hard hitting letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi,
Jaganmohan Reddy, popularly known as Jagan, said he was pained
over the attempts to create a rift in the party.
The Kadapa MP, however, appealed to his followers among state
legislators not to resign.
Alleging that he and his family were insulted by the party on
several occasions since the death of his father, Jagan said he had
no other option.
"Why did you create division in the family? What crime had we
committed?" Jagan asked, alleging that the party lured his uncle
Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy away with a ministerial post.
"I and my mother are resigning from the primary membership of the
Congress party. After going through all this, we have no other
option," he said.
"You tried to isolate me hence I am going alone. I appeal to my
followers not to resign," Jagan said while assuring Sonia Gandhi
that she need not fear a split in the party because of him.
Claiming that 150 MLAs had supported him to succeed his father,
then chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy who died in a
helicopter crash in September last year, Jagan said he still did
not run after the post.
However, it was not clear if Jagan would float a new party.
Jagan's mother Vijayalakshmi was elected unopposed from
Pulivendula constituency in Kadapa district in December last year,
following YSR's death.
Jagan's sudden move came as his uncle Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy is
camping in the national capital for a berth in the state cabinet.
Jagan has been running a defiant campaign since the leadership
turned down his claim for the chief minister's post since after
his father's death.
The young MP has been targeting K. Rosaiah, who stepped down as
chief minister last week on grounds of health. Last week, the
leadership named state assembly Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy as
Rosaiah's successor.
Jagan's move to quit the party came at a time when the leadership
was planning to take disciplinary action against him for using his
Sakshi television channel and media network to attack Sonia
Gandhi.
Jagan was desperate after his uncle began lobbying for a
ministerial post and close family friend K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao
also distanced himself.
Rao, a member of the Rajya Sabha and a close friend of the late
YSR, has now moved closer to the central leadership. On the
direction of Kiran Kumar Reddy, he resigned late Sunday as the
advisor to the state government.
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