Five Congress MLAs of Kadapa district have threatened to resign their membership of the Legislative Assembly if a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is not convened within the next two days.
C. Adinarayana Reddy (Jammalamadugu constituency), K. Sreenivasulu (Koduru), P. M. Kamalamma (Badvel) and G. Srikanth Reddy (Rayachoti) made this announcement at a joint press conference here on Tuesday while Mr. A. Amarnath Redy (Rajampet) separately said that he would also follow suit.
The five legislators, who hail from Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's native district, are his staunch loyalists and are demanding that his son Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy be made Chief Minister after convening a meeting of the CLP and electing him as its leader.
The MLAs strongly criticised Congress MPs K. Keshava Rao and V. Hanumantha Rao for their recent statements which, they said, were in violation of the party high command's caution to leaders not to speak at will. "Are they trying to split the party", they asked.
Earlier in the day, pro-Jagan supporters prevented the authorities from holding the general body meeting of the Kadapa Zilla Parishad by gheraoing the MLAs and other leaders. Mr. Y. S. Viveknanda Reddy, MLC and YSR's brother, also squatted in the ZP premises in solidarity with the protestors.
