T Jeevan Reddy, a senior legislative councilor and former minister in the Telangana Assembly, said on Thursday that he is deeply hurt and disgusted by the developments in the Congress and wants the party to decide whether he should remain in the party or not. said.
Jeevan Reddy wrote a letter to this effect to All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge and sent copies to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Prime Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
He alleged that the state party not only encouraged defections of MLAs from the Bharat Rashtra Samiti Party but also gave undue importance to MLAs in the Congress and ignored the true members of the Congress party.
Jeevan Reddy is concerned about the increasing atrocities in their respective constituencies by defected BRS MLAs targeting honest Congress leaders and cadres who have worked hard for the party over the decades. expressed.
The MLA announced that he was deeply hurt by the murder of his close supporter Gangi Reddy, allegedly by the supporters of sitting Jagishal MLA M. Sanjay Kumar, who recently defected to the Congress from the BRS.
“Sanjay Kumar should clarify whether the accused is his supporter and whether he campaigned for BRS in the last elections. I have not been able to swallow the current political situation in Congress. It is causing me a lot of mental anguish and stress,” he said.
The former minister alleged that the Congress was mistreating him despite serving the party for over four decades.
“From now on, the party will decide my future course of action. I don’t want to leave the party, but I am spending sleepless nights thinking about how long I will have to continue to suffer humiliation within the party,” he lamented.
He called for clarity from parliament on whether it would continue to encourage defections to the party.
