Internal differences within the ruling the Congress in Andhra Pradesh came to the fore on Sunday with a group of senior leaders and MPs demanding the resignation of the state irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, for the alleged irregularities in irrigation projects.
"Minister Lakshmaiah should be held responsible for various irregularities. He should immediately resign. IAS officer, Mr C.V.S.K. Sarma, the former secretary in the irrigation department, is now in the Chief Minister's Office. Mr Sarma should take 100 per cent responsibility of the irregularities," Ms Palvai Govardhan Reddy, a senior Congress leader, said.
Several MPs and other leaders from Telangana region held a meeting at Mr Govardhan Reddy's residence on Sunday.
Mr Lakshmaiah, who also hails from Telangana, has been the irrigation minister since Congress assumed power under the leadership of the late chief minister, Y.S.R. Reddy, in 2004.
Nalgonda MP, Mr G. Sukhender Reddy, said he and his colleagues would meet the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and party president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to apprise them about the alleged corruption in the irrigation projects.
He demanded a change in the design of Polavaram irrigation project in coastal Andhra to "save the lives of hundreds of people in the region and to prevent submergence in Telangana". (More) PTI
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