HYDERABAD: Congress leader and Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy has courted trouble by attending the YSRTP’s ‘Aatmeeya Sammelanam’ organised YS Vijayamma, the mother of party chief YS Sharmila, on Friday, September 3, 2021. The TPCC and APCC had instructed leaders from the respective parties to refrain from attending the meeting. Speaking to media at his residence in Banjara Hills, TPCC campaign committee convenor, Madhu Yashki Goud felt that Venkat Reddy’s participation in the Sammelanam was against his party’s interests.

Stating that the MP’s act amounted to backstabbing the TPCC, Yashki Goud said that no one was stopping him from joining another party. The Congress leader added that the AICC would take a call on initiating ‘disciplinary action’ against Venkat Reddy soon. “The act of speaking from a political platform organised by a party that is a Congress rival would obviously not be in our interests. The high command will take a decision on the matter,” he explained.

Emphasising that Vijayamma’s programme was in no way apolitical, Yashki Goud said that siblings YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and YS Sharmila were trying to axe the branch of a tree (the Congress), from where their father went on to become a great leader and a CM.