Congress president Sonia Gandhi is at her wit’s end as to what has happened to the party in Andhra Pradesh, which has been its major bastion in the South India.
Though the by-election results in the state were not surprising for her, she apparently expressed deep concern over the way YSR Congress party led by jailed Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had won 15 seats mostly with a huge margin of votes and the way the Congress party stood in the third position in as many as 10 seats and lost deposits in four places.
According to sources in New Delhi, Sonia did not even look at the report submitted by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana over the party’s debacle in the by-elections.
“I am aware of the factors that led to the party’s loss. You have miserably failed to bring about coordination among the party leaders in the state. It is time the party stands united and you should ensure that there is no exodus of leaders from the party,” she told them.
Sources said she could not give sufficient time for the Chief Minister and the PCC chief to discuss the poll debacle, but in the brief time she had spent with them, she appeared totally disgusted. However, she is in a helpless state and has no choice but to bear with them at least for the time being. “She might concentrate on the state of affairs in the party after the Presidential polls,” sources said.
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