VIJAYAWADA: YSRC rebel MP K Raghurama Krishnam Raju is understood to have dropped his idea of quitting his Lok Sabha seat after February 5. He had earlier this month announced he would submit his resignation only after February 5, considering his party leadership had failed to get him disqualified.
Earlier this month, Raghurama Krishnam Raju threw an open challenge to the party leadership to get him disqualified before January 7 and announced that he would quit if the leadership failed. He reiterated his demand to his party leadership on January 7 and set February 5 as the new deadline, asking the party to get him disqualified from the Lok Sabha.
While the reasons are not known, it is said that Raju has decided to wait for a few more weeks and give a fresh deadline to the party. It is said that he would wait till the last week of April or the first half of May.
Raju also said he would seek re-election from Narasapur Lok Sabha seat after his resignation and win by a huge majority. He said he would go to the voters on the Amaravati issue and ‘failures’ of the state government.
Meanwhile, the YSRC has been trying for his disqualification, accusing him of anti-party activities. The party has also submitted several sets of representations to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, seeking his disqualification. Vijayasai Reddy led the delegation of party MPs to the speaker mounting pressure on him to disqualify Raju. They recently submitted a fresh representation of video and media clips of Raju at a meeting with opposition leader Chandrababu Naidu in Tirupati to justify their complaint.
In this background, Raju is said to have rescheduled his resignation plans.
Meanwhile, Raju has alleged that the state government is conspiring to kill him. He said the chief minister and the CID chief have planned to eliminate him and requested the Lok Sabha speaker to act swiftly and protect him.
