EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

For veteran Congress leader Digvijay Singh, essaying the role of a troubleshooter comes with effortless ease.

- By Amarnath K. Menon

So, as the Congress stares at a political crisis in Telangana, the party bosses dispatched him to defuse the infighting that is fast transforming into an unseemly 'native-versusmigrant' conflict.

On gauging that an amicable solution was unreachable, Singh spent an entire day (December 22) meeting party heavyweights and other leaders one by oneonly to announce in the end that Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy will lead the party into the 2023 assembly election and present a report to the party high command on how to dissolve the sharpening divide.

WITH LESS THAN A YEAR TO GO FOR ASSEMBLY ELECTION, THE CONGRESS FINDS ITSELF IN DISARRAY IN TELANGANA

Some of the leaders are learnt to be furious over a social media campaign being run against them, allegedly at Revanth Reddy’s behest. The crisis deepened after a group of dissident leaders held a meeting on December 17 and voiced their objection to the packing of party panels with turncoats from other parties. The TPCC chief himself joined the Congress after resigning from the Telugu Desam Party TDP) in 2017.