Ponguleti demands action against Surekha

All India Congress Committee secretary Ponguleti Sudhakar on Thursday demanded the immediate suspension of former minister and MLA Konda Surekha from the party for her outburst in which she made damning allegations against AICC president Sonia Gandhi.

Talking to media persons at Congress Legislative Party Office, Mr Sudhakar opined that the comments made by Ms Surekha were not only ‘baseless, distorted, damaging and atrocious’ were denting the image of national party.

He questioned the right of Ms Surekha, who had contested on Congress party ticket and used Ms Sonia Gandhi name and had the blessings of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, to question the leadership of the Congress president.

Reacting on the corruption allegations leveled by Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu against the State and Central government, Mr Sudhakar said that the former chief minister has no moral right to talk on corruption as everybody in the state was well aware how the TDP chief had Naidu minted crores of money through illegal means.

Reacting on Communist Party of India state secretary K Narayana describing the Congress as `sinking ship,’ Mr Sudhakar said that the veteran Left leader’s statements are condemnable.

He said that Praja Rajyam Party president K Chiranjeevi had taken the decision to merge his party with the Congress after seeing the ruling party’s performance and appreciating its policies and accepting that the schemes which have been envisaged and implemented were beneficial for the poor and downtrodden.