CM Revanth, PCC chief asked to attend emergency meeting in New Delhi today

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Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with AICC in charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

State Congress leaders, including Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, are expected to be present in New Delhi at an emergency meeting convened by the AICC leadership in wake of the rejection of the nomination papers of senior leader and party in charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan.

Sources said the Chief Minister and TPCC chief B. Mahesh Kumar Goud have been asked to attend the meeting. Mr. Mahesh Goud, who was in Bhopal yesterday where the nomination papers were rejected confirmed that he has been asked to rush to Delhi.

In the meantime, the Congress leaders are stunned at the sudden turn of events in connection with the rejection of nomination papers. Party leaders asserted that none of them had any clue about a private petition pending in the court.

Mr. Mahesh Kumar Goud told The Hindu on Wednesday that it was an erroneous act of the Returning officer of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly to have rejected the nomination paper of Congress leader and AICC in charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan.

The top leader said he too was named as a respondent in the private petition filed by the former woman Corporator. “We were asked to respond to the notice sent by the court. So was the case with Ms. Meenakshi Natarajan, who too was named as a respondent,” he said.

Sources in the party said that it was personal dispute between the woman and the Congress leader Kumbham Shiva Kumar Reddy that eventually led to the private petition in the court. Based on the complaint, action was taken against Mr. Shiva Kumar Reddy, who was removed as the District Congress Committee president of Narayanpet. Subsequently, he too was denied the ticket to contest as Congress candidate from Narayanpet Assembly constituency.

Mr. Mahesh Kumar Goud denied the charges levelled by the BJP leaders of Madhya Pradesh that a Congressman from Telangana had tipped them off about the court case. The