Cong leaders pay tributes to Nandi Yellaiah

Hyderabad: Several senior Congress leaders on Monday paid rich tributes to former MP Nandi Yellaiah who passed away on August 8 due to Covid-19.
Participating in the virtual condolence meeting, Telangana Congress president and MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy and AICC general secretary in charge RC Khuntia recalled the services of Nandi Yellaiah for the nation and the Congress party.“Nandi Yellaiah began his political career as a corporator of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and went on to become a Member of Parliament eight times. Nandi Yellaiah was polite, humble and quite affectionate towards me,” he recalled.
However, some of the veteran Congress leaders including M Kodanda Reddy, Marri Shashidhar Reddy, V Hanumnanth Rao, Ponnala Lakshmaiah did not attend the meeting. Though these leaders gave technical and other personal reasons for not being able to attend the condolence meeting, sources said they wanted to subtly register their protest against the party leadership for denying ticket to Nandi Yellaiah from Nagarkurnool Lok Sabha constituency in 2019 polls. Though Nandi Yellaiah was a sitting MP from Nagarkurnool, he was not given the ticket.
AICC Incharge of Telangana Affairs R C Khuntia, CLP leader Bhatti Vikarmarka, working presidents A Revanth Reddy and Ponnam Prabhakar, MLA D Sridhar Babu, AICC secretaries Bose Raju, Sampath Kumar, Vamshichand Reddy, Srinivasan Krishnan, former ministers J Geetha Reddy , DCC Presidents and other senior leaders participated in the condolence meeting.
Meanwhile, CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka said: “Nandi Yellaiah may have survived if the TRS government had taken measures to effectively stop the spread of coronavirus in the State,” Bhatti said.