OPEN LETTER TO Hon’ble Congress President Smt. Soniaji
Namaste,
The Congress Secular Hindu Forum (CSHF) is shocked to know that you have deputed senior Congress leader and union Defence Minister Sri A K Antony to Hyderabad on January 31, 2011, to invite Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president Sri Chiranjeevi for talks to Delhi. It was also reported in the media that Sri Antony was sent to formalize electoral alliance between Congress and PRP in the next Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
After the electoral defeat in 2009 elections, Sri Chiranjeevi has been losing his electoral support in Andhra Pradesh steeply and he is finding it difficult to contain his own MLAs within his party. Some of them have been openly associating with Sri Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and extending support to him.
Sri Antony’s Hyderabad visit has demoralized the Congress cadre in the state and also damaged the prestige of the party and also your prestige in the eyes of the people in the state. Sri Chiranjeevi is not such a big leader to depute such senior leader to invite him for Delhi. As in the case of earlier occasions, he is always ready to meet you even invitation was extended through some of your personnel staff over telephone.
Congress workers in the state were shocked to hear that Sri Antony was deputed by AICC General Secretary Sri Rahul Gandhi and in fact he carried a letter from the later. If that was the true, that would amount to insult the position of Sri Antony, who was three-time Chief Minister of Kerala and is in the Union Cabinet for the second time. CSHF hopes that it is not good to lower the status of such a senior leader, who is now holding very important ministry like Defence, to the level of a messenger.
CSHF fearing that this initiative may spoil the Congress fortunes in Andhra Pradesh, which has remained as a major source of strength for surviving Congress-led UPA Government at the Center. This would bring down the party status to the levels of states like West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. We have to make it clear to you that Congress General Secretary Sri Rahul Gandhi, your political secretary Sri Ahmad Patel and union minister Sri A K Antony, besides yourself should be held responsibility to the party’s disastrous state of affairs in those states.
Congress workers in Andhra Pradesh suspecting that Sri Antony was deputed to Hyderabad following a secret pack between Smt Sonia Gandhi and Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy, to facilitate the later to become politically dominant figure in the state. It is believed that Congress attempt to reach into electoral alliance with Sri Chiranjeevi will take away powerful sections from Congress into the fold of Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy. That would facilitate Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy to emerge as single largest party in Andhra Pradesh in Assembly elections, while Congress-Chiranjeevi combine may not get more than 40 to 50 seats.
In such scenario, it is suspected that a plot was designed to form coalition government in Andhra Pradesh making Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy as Chief Minister and Congress remain as junior partner on the lines of NCP-Congress coalition in Maharashtra.
CSHF is suspecting that such a plot was designed due to pressures from foreign Christian Missionaries and UN Consulate General and Sri Antony, who is a strong believer in Christianity, was deputed for this task. We never expected such a move from you only to please foreign Christian Missionaries and protect US interests, at the cost of the survival of Congress party in the state.
The people in general in the state are of the view, that Union Minister of State for Defense Sri M Pallam Raju has been misguiding the Congress high command, through Sri Antony, facilitating for a political understanding with Sri Chiranjeevi
In this connection, we wish to bring to your notice the fate of Congress party in West Bengal, following a splitter group from the party Bangla Congress, headed by Sri Ajay Mukherjee, formed government in 1967, reaching into alliance with CPM and making Sri Jyoti Basu as Deputy Chief Minister.
Though that government survived only for eight months, then President rule was promulgated and later again in 1969 elections, same combination came into power, CPM make use this opportunity to strengthen their cadre and party in West Bengal and weaken Congress party cadre and structure. Though Congress return to power in 1971, it failed to regain its strength and in 1977 CPM had won on its own and Sri Jyoti Basu became Chief Minister. Since them, West Bengal is in the clutches of CPM.
If Sri Chiranjeevi is now made as Deputy Chief Minister, CSHF fears that he may use this opportunity to strengthen his base. Make use of his fan following, he will try to take regime of the state government for a long time. In such scenario, Congress is likely to remain as a junior partner.
That’s only, CSHF is strongly opposing to reach into any electoral alliance or political understanding with Sri Chiranjeevi and we cautions the party high command such a move would weaken the Congress party in the state. Bringing Sri Chiranjeevi close to power structure would be dangerous for Congress party more than facing challenge from Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy.
We wish to bring to your notice that all Congress workers in the state are also against reaching into any political understanding with Sri Chiranjeevi. We request you to respect the sentiments of Congress party cadre and save the party from such onslaughts. Otherwise, we cautioned you that would be disastrous for the survival of the part even at the national level.
Already, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Sri N Kiran Kumar Reddy is heading one of most unpopular government in the state as most of his ministers are corrupt and lost public support. Instead of reaching into understanding with Sri Chiranjeevi to save this unpopular government, CSHF is of the view, it would be better to promulgate president rule in the state and save the Congress party.
With regards,
Sincerely Yours,
K Ravi Kumar,
General Secretary-Central Committee
General Secretary-Central Committee
