Telangana: Double whammy for Congress as Dasoju Sravan too quits after Raj Gopal Reddy

HYDERABAD: Days after Munugode MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy's exit, the Congress suffered another setback on Friday with AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan announcing his resignation from the party. Apart from citing 'atma gouravam' (self-respect), Dasoju also held TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy responsible for quitting the party which caught senior leaders unawares.
However, Dasoju was evasive about the party he will be joining. Asked if he was leaning towards the BJP, he said at a crowded press meet: "To protect my self-respect, to free Telangana from clutches of CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and to work towards fulfilling the dream of Telangana people, which is not possible with Revanth-led Congress, I am resigning from Congress and all posts," he said.

The party leadership, which was taken by surprise, rushed a team of senior leaders, including working president Mahesh Kumar Goud and All India Kisan Congress vice-president M Kodanda Reddy, to convince him to stay back in the party.
However, their last-minute persuasion failed to hold back Dasoju. He alleged that AICC incharge of Telangana, Manickam Tagore, and poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu have ganged up with Revanth and giving wrong survey reports to the high command.
Targeting Revanth, Dasoju went ballistic saying: "It is understandable if other political parties try to weaken Congress. Here it's a case of fence eating the crop. Revanth is behaving like a feudal and weakening the original Congress leaders and party loyalists, especially SC, ST and BC leaders and trying to enslave them."
He said if Revanth was at the helm the grand old party will be finished in Telangana. "He is running the Congress like a private event management company, taking unilateral decisions and even crushing the Congress ideology of social justice. Revanth has turned a sober Congress into a robber Congress party," he alleged.
Dasoju said Revanth's casteist remark that Reddys are better rulers has done a lot of damage to the Congress with BCs, SCs and STs distancing themselves from the party. "I had complained about it in a meeting with Rahul Gandhi but nothing has happened," he said and added it is with a lot of pain he is leaving the Congress.