Hyderabad, March 17 – In a development that could create tension within the ruling Congress party in Telangana, state minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has demanded that senior leader Jagga Reddy be appointed as the state Congress chief.
Speaking informally to media personnel in the Assembly lobbies, the minister for roads and buildings stated that Jagga Reddy should be appointed president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC).
The minister stated that Jagga Reddy is a mass leader and if he is made TPCC chief, the Congress party will win 100 seats in the next Assembly elections.
He compared Jagga Reddy to P. Janardhan Reddy (PJR), who was the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the combined Andhra Pradesh Assembly between 1994 and 1999.
The TPCC is currently headed by Mahesh Kumar Goud, who was appointed to the post in September 2024. He succeeded Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who had been the TPCC president since July 7, 2021.
T. Jayaprakash Reddy, popularly known as Jagga Reddy, is currently the working president of TPCC. He has been an MLA from the Sangareddy constituency for three terms. He was previously associated with the TRS (now BRS) before joining the Congress party in 2015.
Meanwhile, senior leader and former minister T. Jeevan Reddy said on Tuesday that he was considering leaving the party due to the MLA from Jagtial, M. Sanjay Kumar.
Jeevan Reddy told the media in Jagtial that he has a 40-year-long association with the Congress, but he was considering quitting the party due to Sanjay Kumar.
Jeevan Reddy has been engaged in a bitter dispute with Sanjay Kumar, who is one of the 10 MLAs of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) who switched loyalties to the Congress party in 2024.
Jeevan Reddy, who was defeated by Sanjay Kumar in the Jagtial constituency in the 2023 elections, has openly defied the party leadership for inducting him into the party.
The Telangana Assembly Speaker has dismissed petitions for disqualification of all 10 MLAs.
Recently, the infighting within the Congress party in the Jagtial district came to the fore when Jeevan Reddy expressed his anger over the allocation of more party tickets for the municipal elections to Sanjay Kumar's group.