In yet another setback to YSR Congress party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, Visakha Dairy chairman Adari Anand Kumar, along with several directors of the dairy, resigned from the primary membership of the party on Friday.
Adari Anand sent his resignation letter to the YSR Congress Party's state headquarters on Friday. He declared that he had resigned from YSRCP to dedicate full-time efforts towards the development of Visakha Dairy.
Similarly, nine other directors have also resigned from the YSR Congress Party.
They are: Saragadham Varaha Venkata Shankar Rao, Pilla Rama Kumari, Seeramreddy Suryanarayana, Kolla Katamayya, Dadi Pavan Kumar, Arangi Ramanababu, Chitikela Rajakumari, Reddy Ramakrishna, Sundarapu Eshwar Pardeshi Gangadhar.
All of them have submitted their resignation letters to the YSR Congress Party headquarters.
Adari’s resignation came as a shock for the YSRCP which received a big jolt recently when former minister Avanti Srinivas left the party citing personal reasons. Adari has also been keeping away from party activities for quite some time.
Son of Visakha Dairy founder Adari Tulasi Rao, Anand Kumar for the first time contested elections in 2019 from Anakapalle Lok Sabha constituency on the TDP ticket, but lost to Satyavthi of YSRCP.
Later, he joined the YSRCP and got the YSRCP ticket and contested from Visakhapatnam West Assembly constituency recently.
He was defeated by sitting MLA Ganababu by a huge margin of 35,154 votes. After the elections, he was keeping away from party activities.
During the YSRCP regime, Anand Kumar was nominated to the post of Chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises Corporation in 2023.