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Congress MLA from Munugode constituency Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy on Tuesday, August 5, expressed his inclination to resign from the party in view of the fact that he wasn’t given any Cabinet post.
Rajgopal’s statement comes two months after the Congress led government in Telangana expanded the state Cabinet in June to include three more members: G Vivek Venkataswamy, Adluri Lakshman Kumar, and Vakiti Srihari.
Rajgopal was speaking to the media after inaugurating a 22/11 KV sub-station at Lachammagudem in Sansthan Narayanpur mandal of Yadadri-Bhongir district. “I could have become a minister by contesting from LB Nagar on a BJP ticket. But I chose Munugode and returned to the Congress for Munugode’s welfare,” he said.
“I was promised a Cabinet berth – once during the Assembly elections, and again during the Bhongir Lok Sabha campaign. It is now up to the leadership what they decide to do,” he added.
The Telangana Cabinet still has three vacant Cabinet slots which haven’t been filled.
Ahead of the Telangana Assembly elections in November 2023, Rajgopal had quit Congress and defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He subsequently returned to the Congress a month before the elections and won as the MLA from Munugode.
Explaining his return to Congress then, Rajagopal Reddy said that he returned to make Telangana free of the ‘corrupt’ and ‘anarchic’ rule of BRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and his family.