Botsa hopes to revive Congress in Seemandhra

PCC President Botsa Satyanaryana is confident of reviving the Congress party in Seemandhra region.

Speaking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan here, Botsa admitted that the Congress has suffered heavy damage in the Seemandhra region due to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. However, he said that regaining the confidence of people of Seemandhra would be a major challenge for the party. He promised that the Congress party would make Seemandhra, the best State in the country. He advised the Congress leaders and workers to work hard to strengthen the party in both Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions.

Botsa also informed that a meeting of DCC Presidents, City Presidents and other office bearers of all 13 districts of Seemandhra has been convened on March 5th at Gandhi Bhavan wherein the future strategy would be discussed.

When asked about the possibility of TRS party's merger with the Congress, Botsa said that issue was directly being handled by the Congress High Command and the State leadership was not involved in it. However, he advised the Congress leaders to restrain from making any statements on merger and also commenting on TRS leaders including K Chandrasekhar Rao.

Botsa also ridiculed the promise of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu of developing Seemandhra like Singapore. He alleged that Naidu's illegal wealth was stacked in Singapore and therefore, he refers to Singapore for everything.

Without naming former Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Botsa said that launching new political parties have become a fashion. He said such parties are usually used to blackmail the Central and State Governments. Such parties also get buyers like a private limited company. For instance, he said that the YSRCP was originally launched by someone else and Jagan Mohan Reddy took over the same. He said some leaders, who quit the Congress party could do the same thing, if they were planning to launch a new party.