Telangana: Congress’ Palvai Sravanthi quits party, alleges commercialisation

In a blow to Congress party ahead of the Telangana polls, Congress leader and spokesperson Palvai Sravanthi on Saturday announced that she is quitting the party in all capacities with immediate effect.

Sravanthi said she had waited for a long period, with a hope that the leaders sitting in Delhi would act on the “collateral damage” the party was suffering in Telangana, thanks to “one person’s attempts” to turn the party into a “commercial” entity.

In a strong attack on Revanth Reddy, Komati Reddy and Rajagopal Reddy, Sravanthi said that ever since Revanth was imported into the party, he had been scripting its end and nullifying the values and principals that the party stood for.

“It is highly deplorable how Rajagopala Reddy, who was responsible for Munugode by poll and who was crying foul against Revanth was overnight accepted back and was given a ticket,” Sravanthi said.

Ealrier in a letter to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Sravanthi had written, “This brings me to a moment that I had never dreamt of, would dawn in my life and in my political career, when I had to bid goodbye to the party that I regarded more than anything in my life.”

Sravanthi said that the Telangana Congress is not the same that it used to be earlier.
“The party, at least at the Telangana level, does not seem to carry the same soul and character that made it what it is today, the beacon of hopes for the hapless, the ambassador of equality and simplicity, and the symbol of strength for the needy,” she said.
Sravanthi alleged that the party has turned into a commercial organization and a profit-making entity.