Dasoju Sravan quits Congress, blames Revanth Reddy

HYDERABAD: The Congress party in Telangana received yet another setback on Friday with the reported resignation of All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Dasoju Sravan. It is being speculated that he would be joining the BJP in pursuit of better prospects in the saffron party.

Spelling out his reasons for exiting the Congress, Sravan trained his guns on TPCC chief Revanth Reddy. While claiming that there was no social justice in the grand-old party, he said that he was leaving the party unable to digest Revanth Reddy's politics of one-upmanship.

He alleged that the TPCC chief was plunging the party into chaos with his unilateral decisions and the penchant for a 'one-man show'. Many leaders are keeping silent purely because of Revanth Reddy's attitude, he added.

Sravan claimed that the TPCC chief was smoking out leaders who had worked hard for the party during troubled times, with the sole intention of promoting his own faction within the party. He also made a sensational revelation that there were several other leaders ready to quit the party.

Calling Revanth Reddy a blackmailer, he said that the TPCC could not be revived to its glory days as long as he was at the helm of affairs in Telangana. "Even those who had wished to join the party were scared of it because of Revanth," he alleged.

Sravan began his journey in public life as an ABVP leader in Osmania University. He rose to prominence in politics when he joined the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of Megastar Chiranjeevi. At the height of the Telangana statehood movement, he differed with PRP's 'unified AP' ideology and came out of it.

Though he joined the TRS subsequently, he remained an unhappy soul there. After being denied a ticket in the Assembly elections, he switched his loyalties to the Congress party. He contested unsuccessfully from the Khairathabad Assembly constituency on a Congress ticket in the 2018 elections.

Till the time of his resignation, he had been functioning as one of the AICC spokespersons of the party. Sravan's exit comes close on the heels of Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy's departure from the party.