Delhi lecture, Telangana homework
AICC huddled Telangana Congress in Delhi on July 27 over infighting and discipline, and fixed a coordination meet for July 29. A Telugu report claims Mallikarjun Kharge rebuffed a “report” from CM Revanth Reddy — an allegation no one on record has confirmed.
The Congress high command reviewed coordination in its Telangana unit on July 27 and scheduled another meeting for July 29.
The Congress high command pulled its Telangana unit to Delhi on July 27 to review what it politely calls coordination, and the rest of us would call infighting. According to multiple reports, AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud, and set a TPCC coordination committee meeting for July 29 in New Delhi.
The stated concerns weren’t subtle: ministers sniping at each other, MLAs out of line, district-level factionalism, and undercooked organisation. Mahesh Kumar Goud, on the record, said Venugopal praised some outreach work but flagged weak booth-level agent performance and told leaders to tighten up — every vote counts when Delhi is doing the counting.
One Telugu report went further, alleging AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge told Revanth Reddy he didn’t need the CM’s “report” because Delhi already has a ground report. That quote has not been confirmed by any public statement from Kharge, Venugopal, Natarajan, the TPCC or the CMO, and no document has surfaced. What is on record is the July 27 review and the July 29 coordination meet — the rest is an allegation that Delhi hasn’t bothered to answer.
For Telangana, the substance matters: a Congress unit busy managing its own egos isn’t managing the state. The BJP will happily watch that show from the Centre; the TDP will clap from next door. If the Congress wants to run Telangana, it can start by running its own shop — preferably before Delhi has to do it for them.