Priyanka may oversee TPCC affairs, Revanth wings to be clipped

HYDERABAD: Following the Congress’s crushing defeat in the Munugode bypol, where its candidate Palvai Sravanthi Reddy lost the deposit, and with senior party leaders such as former minister Marri Shashidar Reddy exiting the party after a long tenure, the party's central high-command is focusing solely on Telangana and considering a restructure at the organisational level, which may include clipping the wings of PCC president A. Revanth Reddy and removal of AICC incharge Manickam Tagore. According to party sources, despite Revanth's camp claiming that Tagore voluntarily has decided to stepped down as state Incharge, the party high command wants him to step down after more than two years at the helm of Telangana affairs, and Congress party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi will most likely be monitoring the Telangana PCC's functioning. The massive overhaul of the party's organisational structure follows complaints from several quarters within the party urging the party's high command to review the party's poor performance in Telangana following several recent debacles. Shashidhar Reddy, who had been a loyal Congressman and headed a 'Congress Loyalists Forum' of Telangana Congress leaders, brought to Sonia Gandhi's attention the poor functioning of AICC in-charges and PCC presidents in Telangana, as well as the growing influence of money in party affairs, and the party's failure to effectively take on the ruling TRS.