Hyderabad Today News: It is known that Home Minister Sabitha Indra reddy was included in the latest charge sheet from CBI in the fraudulent assets case as A-4. Many Ministers from the state cabinet and Congress MLAs had met her today. Ministers Jana Reddy and Vatti Vasanth Kumar had discussed with Sabitha regarding this. Even DGP Dinesh reddy had met with the Home Minister today.
Another Minister DK Aruna too had met Sabitha and discussed about many issues. Aruna after her meet had said to media that Sabitha is thinking about going for a resignation now. She stated to have asked Sabitha not to make any decisions in such urgency and rather decide after the truths have come out.
Latest news is that Janreddy had met with Sabitha Indra Reddy and advised her not to take any hasty decision in tension. Sources stated that he was sent as the mediator by CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC Chief Botsa to inform her that decision can be taken only after deeply scrutinising the charge sheet filed by CBI. With CBI naming her in the chargesheet, home minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy offered to quit the cabinet on moral grounds.
A disheartened Sabitha called on chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy at his camp office here on Monday night and is understood to have told him she was innocent. Kiran and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana, who was with him at that time, are said to have advised her against taking any hasty step as they have yet to look into the charges levelled by the CBI against her. The chief minister is said to have offered all help to her in the hour of crisis.
Meanwhile, CBI chargesheeting the home minister has shocked Congress leaders. With Mopidevi Venkata Ramana already in jail and another minister Dharmana Prasada Rao listed as accused in the same case, adding another minister in the charge-sheet is the last thing the Congress expected in an election year.
"It is definitely a setback. That this should happen at a time when efforts are on to project the party as one that did not encourage corruption is very unsettling," one minister said. But Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, in all likelihood, may persist with her but there is a catch here. Sabita happens to be the Home Minister and it remains to be seen if he would like to have a Home Minister whose name figures in a charge-sheet.
"This is a very dicey situation," the minister admitted, observing that every time the Chief Minister tries to do something to bolster the party's image, something or the other comes in the way. He, however, felt that as corruption had never been an issue in elections, the Congress could get away with it. "Could there be any one more corrupt than YS Jagan Mohan Reddy? But he is winning elections," he pointed out.
Most of the Congress leaders feel that it would be in the interest of the party if both Dharmana and Sabita are dropped from the Cabinet. As Dharmana is still continuing as a minister, Sabita may not be axed but it would send a wrong signal to the people, one MP opined. "In the case of Dharmana, Kiran Kumar Reddy did not accept the resignation since he is very close to him after the party high command left the decision to him. Now, if Kiran is allowed to have his say, he might continue Sabita," a Telangana MP said.
Already, according to him, the party's image has taken a beating with Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, a BC, being arrested and Dharmana, a Velama, remaining a free man and a minister to boot. "If Sabita too is allowed to continue in the Cabinet, the damage to the party's image would be even more," he said. Another MP, a strong critic of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, felt it would be better if Sabita steps down on her own. "If she hangs on, people might suspect the credentials of the party," he said, adding that this would help Jagan politically at the expense of the Congress. "I don't want the Congress to play into the hands of Jagan," he said.
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Another Minister DK Aruna too had met Sabitha and discussed about many issues. Aruna after her meet had said to media that Sabitha is thinking about going for a resignation now. She stated to have asked Sabitha not to make any decisions in such urgency and rather decide after the truths have come out.
Latest news is that Janreddy had met with Sabitha Indra Reddy and advised her not to take any hasty decision in tension. Sources stated that he was sent as the mediator by CM Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC Chief Botsa to inform her that decision can be taken only after deeply scrutinising the charge sheet filed by CBI. With CBI naming her in the chargesheet, home minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy offered to quit the cabinet on moral grounds.
A disheartened Sabitha called on chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy at his camp office here on Monday night and is understood to have told him she was innocent. Kiran and PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana, who was with him at that time, are said to have advised her against taking any hasty step as they have yet to look into the charges levelled by the CBI against her. The chief minister is said to have offered all help to her in the hour of crisis.
Meanwhile, CBI chargesheeting the home minister has shocked Congress leaders. With Mopidevi Venkata Ramana already in jail and another minister Dharmana Prasada Rao listed as accused in the same case, adding another minister in the charge-sheet is the last thing the Congress expected in an election year.
"It is definitely a setback. That this should happen at a time when efforts are on to project the party as one that did not encourage corruption is very unsettling," one minister said. But Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, in all likelihood, may persist with her but there is a catch here. Sabita happens to be the Home Minister and it remains to be seen if he would like to have a Home Minister whose name figures in a charge-sheet.
"This is a very dicey situation," the minister admitted, observing that every time the Chief Minister tries to do something to bolster the party's image, something or the other comes in the way. He, however, felt that as corruption had never been an issue in elections, the Congress could get away with it. "Could there be any one more corrupt than YS Jagan Mohan Reddy? But he is winning elections," he pointed out.
Most of the Congress leaders feel that it would be in the interest of the party if both Dharmana and Sabita are dropped from the Cabinet. As Dharmana is still continuing as a minister, Sabita may not be axed but it would send a wrong signal to the people, one MP opined. "In the case of Dharmana, Kiran Kumar Reddy did not accept the resignation since he is very close to him after the party high command left the decision to him. Now, if Kiran is allowed to have his say, he might continue Sabita," a Telangana MP said.
Already, according to him, the party's image has taken a beating with Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, a BC, being arrested and Dharmana, a Velama, remaining a free man and a minister to boot. "If Sabita too is allowed to continue in the Cabinet, the damage to the party's image would be even more," he said. Another MP, a strong critic of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, felt it would be better if Sabita steps down on her own. "If she hangs on, people might suspect the credentials of the party," he said, adding that this would help Jagan politically at the expense of the Congress. "I don't want the Congress to play into the hands of Jagan," he said.
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