Ever since the YSR Congress party headed by former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy lost power in June this year, many party leaders have quietly disappeared from the state political scene.
One such leader is former state women’s commission chairperson Vasireddy Padama.
She has not been seen or heard in the state politics for the last five months, even when there were allegations of atrocities against women in the present regime of Telugu Desam Party-led NDA.
Padma had resigned from the women’s commission chairperson post before the elections after she was promised the YSRCP ticket for the assembly elections. She said she had quit the post for actively campaigning for the party.
But when she did not get the party ticket, Padma quietly withdrew from the scene and was not seen in the election campaign. After the YSRCP lost power, she went into a political hibernation.
Now, according to the latest reports, Vasireddy Padma has decided to resign from the party.
She is expected to submit the resignation in a day or two and announce her future course of action.
It is not immediately known whether she will quit politics or join any other political party. In fact, she began her political career with Praja Rajyam Party floated by megastar Chiranjeevi in 2008 and later defected to the YSRCP.
Against this backdrop, there is a talk that Padma might join the Jana Sena Party headed by deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan.
Being a Kapu leader, Padma might opt for this party, as she has no place in the TDP which she had criticised strongly when she was in the YSRCP.