AP cabinet reshuffle triggers fresh dissent wave

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HYDERABAD: Even the limited reshuffle of portfolios by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has not gone off without triggering a wa..

HYDERABAD: Even the limited reshuffle of portfolios by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has not gone off without triggering a wave of dissent in the party with health minister DL Ravindra Reddy, bursting out at the chief minister.
"If questioning the policies of the government has led to the medical education portfolio being taken away from me, let them remove me from the cabinet altogether. Even then I will continue to question the deficiencies in schemes since that is what my constituents in Mydukur want from me," he said. Ravindra Reddy, who is in Kadapa district, will arrive in Hyderabad tomorrow and is contemplating to hold a meet with party workers to decide on his future course of action.

As soon as the names of the three ministers became known in the afternoon on Monday, Boddepalli Satyavathi, Amudalavalasa MLA made her displeasure known. She wanted to know the rationale behind taking Rajam MLA Kondru Murali Mohan into the cabinet, ignoring her though she hails from backward classes. and alleged that the Congress was ignoring those who had been working selflessly for it.

He said tongue in cheek at Kazipet in Kadapa district: "Maybe because I am 62 they may have thought I would not be able to handle such a large portfolio and entrusted medical education to a youngster. If my portfolio was split because I questioned the government's policies, then I think it is wrong since as a minister that is what I was supposed to do.''

The induction of G Prasad Kumar has already ruffled the feathers of home minister Sabita Indra Reddy who thinks her importance in the Rangareddy district has diminished as the district is being represented by two ministers now. This apart, she felt hurt by the induction of Prasad Kumar since he belongs to the family of former MP G Venkatswamy. She had a running feud with P Shankar Rao who is related to Venkataswamy. That the chief minister, after sacking Shankar Rao, chose another MLA from the same family is what she is unable to digest. This could be one reason for her not turn up at the swearingin.