HYDERABAD: Refuting reports that he was among the aspirants for the Chief Minister’s post if the Congress is voted back to power, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president D. Srinivas on Friday categorically denied that he was in the race for the post.
Asserting that the Congress was set to bag a comfortable majority in the State, he said Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Legislature Party would select the Chief Minister after the results were announced. The Congress being a national party had certain procedures for selection of the Chief Minister and it would do so accordingly.
In an informal chat with reporters here, Mr. Srinivas, however, hinted that a change of guard is unlikely in the State as Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had given good governance in the last five years.
He said he was not willing to entertain the idea of a hung Assembly and asserted that the Congress would not need the support of any other party to form a government.
On support to TRS
Responding to claims from a section of party leaders that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) would join hands with the Congress, he said TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement was clear about his party’s stand to support any national party that promised a separate Telangana. The United Progressive Alliance, on its part, would not be averse to taking help of the TRS at the national level if it was willing to give its support.
He came down heavily on a section of media for “creating confusion” among people by their “speculative and hypothetical reports.”
source-hindu
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