A group of former ministers and MLAs from Seemandhra is planning to float a separate ‘Indira Congress’ in the event of a division of the state. The group, which met at CLP office in the Assem-bly on Tuesday, took stock of the ongoing developments in Delhi, especially on the Telangana front. A former minister, who did not wish to be named, said that in case a division of the state was inevitable, they would quit the Congress and float a new party in the name of former PM Indira Gandhi.
He said there were two reasons for them to float a new outfit. “We have promised the electorate, and have been agitating for the past three years, to keep AP united. If the state is divided, there would be no meaning in continuing in the party. Secondly, Indira Gandhi was known to each and every person in the Seemandhra region as one who saved AP from being divided when the ‘Jai Telangana’ and ‘Jai Andhra’ movements came up in 1969 and 1972 respectively.”
Incidentally, one of the members of the group, a former minister, met the CM on Tuesday and insisted on introduction of the Telangana resolution in the Assembly so that it would be defeated and the issue settled once and for all. Mr Reddy however told him that it was not advisable at this stage without the approval of Congress high command.