Days after being sacked from the Telangana cabinet headed by chief minister A Revanth Reddy, former minister Konda Surekha on Sunday made it clear that she had no plans whatsoever to quit the Congress and asserted that she would contest the next assembly elections on Congress ticket.
Because she felt she had been dropped without a valid reason, addressing Congress leaders and workers from the Parkal and Warangal (East) assembly constituencies at a hotel in Warangal, Surekha said her removal from the Cabinet had certainly caused her a lot of disappointment only.
“I was not distressed by losing the cabinet berth, but was pained at the way I was removed from the cabinet. That does not mean I will resign from the Congress and switch over to another party. However, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president B Mahesh Kumar Goud feigned ignorance about the high command’s telephonic talks with Surekha. “I am not aware of it.
She said she would work towards strengthening its organisation ahead of the forthcoming elections and expressed confidence that Congress would win 24 corporator seats in the upcoming municipal corporation elections.
I grew up in the Congress and will continue to remain a Congress leader,” Surekha said. She said she had received phone calls from top leaders in the Congress, assuring her that the party would take care of her political interests and asking her not to go into any other party. A senior Congress familiar with the development said AICC in-charge of party affairs in Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan had a telephonic call to Surekha, asking her to come to New Delhi for talks about her political future. I have no information about the high command’s call to Surekha asking her to come to Delhi,” he said.
Surekha asserted that irrespective of the alleged political conspiracies against her, she would once again secure the Congress ticket from Warangal (East) in the next assembly elections and win the seat.
“The Congress will come back to power and I will become a minister again,” she said.
