Date:25/01/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/25/stories/2007012504270600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Congress leaves ZP issue to YSR

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday refused to intervene in the feud between two Ministers in Andhra Pradesh — Satrucharla Vijayrama Raju and Botcha Satyanarayana — over a Zilla Parishad post suggesting that it was for Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to take a view.

"The Chief Minster should either accept it [resignations] or resolve it," party general secretary Digvijay Singh said in response to a question as to how the Congress would take the threat of these two Ministers to resign in case their candidates were not accommodated. State Marketing Minster Mr. Satyanarayana, and State Forest Minister Mr. Raju had staked claim to the Vizianagaram ZP chairmanship after it was relinquished by Botcha Jhansi, wife of Mr. Satyanarayana.