It is a known fact that the Congress party has more or less been wiped out from both the Telugu states. While it is still battling for life in Telangana, it is almost dead in Andhra Pradesh.
While the party is struggling at the national level to find an alternative leader in the wake of the resignation of AICC president Rahul Gandhi, party presidents in many states have resigned from their posts owning moral responsibility for the party’s debacle in the recent general elections.
Even Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy submitted his resignation from the post last month itself.
On Tuesday, Raghuveera wrote another letter to party general secretary in-charge of Andhra affairs Oomen Chandy requesting that his resignation be accepted forthwith and he be relieved of his responsibilities immediately.
In any case, there is nothing much for Raghuveera to do now, as the party has been completely decimated in AP. It could not even two lakh votes, which is much less than the votes polled under NOTA.
In Telangana, however, PCC president Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy is still hanging to his post.
Though Uttam miserably failed to bring the party to power in December 2018 assembly elections and also secure a good number of MP seats in Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress had won only three MP seats; while Uttam himself had won from Nalgonda, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy bagged Bhongir LS seat and Revanth Reddy won from Malkajgiri.
All the three managed to win with least majority and their victory can be attributed to their individual capacity, rather than the people’s support for the Congress party.
Now, one wonders what Uttam is waiting for?
According to analysts, the Congress had lost the assembly elections only because Uttam had failed to provide strong leadership.
His wrong selection of candidates and lack of campaign strategy, above all the blunder committed in forging alliance with the Telugu Desam Party led to the party’s humiliating defeat.
Many leaders have left the party in the last six months because of Uttam.
“At least now, he should step down to pave the way for new generation leaders so that they can at least ensure that the party will not be dead by next elections,” an analyst said.
