Congress fails to select nominee

*Coordination panel shortens Ongole trip

                                                Congress fails to select nominee

DC CORRESPONDENT

ONGOLE, APRIL 16

Hopes of selecting a candidate for the Ongole assembly seat for the byelection through a coordination committee were shattered as the committee visited Ongole for only one day as against the scheduled five days to collector opinions of party cadre. The Congress appointed coordination committee with district incharge minister, Mr Dokka Manikyavaraprasad Rao, minister for secondary education, Mr K. Parthasarathy, the minister for municipal administration and urban development, Mr Manugunta Mahidhar Reddy, Ongole MP, Mr Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Vijayawada central MLA, Mr Malladi Vishnu, MLAs of Chirala, Kanigiri and Santanutalapadu, Messrs Amanchi Krishnamohan, Mukku Ugranarsimha Reddy and B. N. Vijaykumar.

Ministers Mr Manikyavaraprasad Rao and Mr Parthasarathy, MP, Mr Srinivasulu Reddy along with MLAs Mr Vijaykumar and Mr Ugranarsimha Reddy conducted a meeting at district party office on April 10 and toured various colonies of the Ongole and further visited Kothapatnam on April 11. Mr Vishnu and Mr Krishnamohan were absent for the two day tours. The ministers faced ire of public in their one day visit in various colonies of Ongole and the Congress cadre also is angry with coordination committee’s cancellation of five-day programme. Some leaders said that normally the Congress high command selects its candidate and informs this in a sealed cover hence this will be done here. Congress leaders and activists feel that the late selection of candidate by the party will affect the Congress in the byelection.

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