At any cost few District Party Chiefs are going ahead with the membership drive. Rival groups demands the suspension of the drive as the leadership issue has to be settlled in favour of YS Jagan.
In Rajahmundry, they demanded that all Congress MPs and MLAs resign from their posts in protest against the high command’s dilly dallying over making Jagan the CM. This led to a showdown with Amalapuram MP Harsh Kumar when, speaking to the media, he said that all the state ministers and MLAs who had threatened to quit if Jagan was not made the CM should lead from the front by resigning.
By Friday evening, Youth Congress leaders in many districts said the membership drive would not be allowed until the leadership issue was settled. But some others vowed to go ahead with it. “The drive will not be stopped as it is being done on the directive of the AICC,” said Mahbubnagar DCC chief S Prakash, a statement that was seconded by Warangal district party chief D Venkataramana Reddy.
Srikakulam district chief K Veerabhadraswamy could not make up his mind. “We have yet to decide whether to carry on with the drive or postpone it,” he said. But Friday made it clear that the state Congress is being divided into YSR followers on the one side and high command loyalists on the other.
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