It has been more than two months since Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy resigned from his post, owning moral responsibility for the party’s humiliating debacle in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state.
But, the party is in such a sorry state of affairs that there is none in the high command to accept or reject his resignation letter, as party’s national president Rahul Gandhi himself has quit the post and the party is in a complete chaos.
In fact, Raghuveera submitted his resignation to the PCC chief post on May 19 itself, when the exit polls were announced by the media, four days before the counting of votes. All the exit polls predicted that the rout of the Congress party.
And as predicted, the party could get just 1.17 percent vote share in the elections with zero seats in the assembly and LS polls. It was worse than the performance in 2014, when it could get 2.77 per cent. It means, the Congress has lost its ground to a large extent in the last five years.
After the resignation, Raghuveera sent two reminders to Delhi to accept the resignation, but there is none to respond to his letters.
Disgusted with this, Raghuveera announced that he would keep away from politics for a period of six months, as he is constructing a temple at his native village.
Now, there is no other leader in the party who is coming forward to accept the post of the PCC chief post, for which there used to be hectic lobbying in the past.
First of all, there are any senior left in the party, as many of them had defected to YSR Congress or the Telugu Desam Party or the BJP.
Except leaders like K V P Ramachandra Rao, Chinta Mohan, S Sailajanath and Tulasi Reddy and of course, former chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, hardly anybody is left in the Congress in Andhra who can revive the party at least to get one or two seats.
That is the status of grand old party in AP!