Jagan supporters tear down Sonia banner

Hyderabad: The demand to appoint Jaganmohan Reddy as Chief Minister took an ugly turn with his supporters allegedly tearing down a banner having pictures of AICC chief Sonia Gandhi at Khammam district Congress committee office.

Though the incident occurred two days ago, when supporters of the Kadappa MP disrupted the teleconference by PCC president D Srinivas on the party membership enrolment drive, it came to light only on Sunday when a television channel aired the footage.

This has angered Congress veterans, who said that Jagan could not become Chief Minister through such atrocious acts.

"Sonia Gandhi is our supreme leader. We are all ordinary workers and neither Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, or Jaganmohan are exceptions. In fact, Rajasekhara Reddy grew to such stature only with the blessings of Soniaji," Congress Central Working Committee member G Venkata Swamy said.

He denounced the incident and wanted the PCC chief to immediately throw out such unruly elements from the party.

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Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao attacked Jagan's followers saying "their act of tearing down the picture of our be loved leader Sonia Gandhi was highly outrageous."

K Rosaiah was appointed the interim chief minister following Reddy's demise in a helicopter crash earlier in September.

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