Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana, who seems to be the front runner in the race to the next PCC president, agreed today that the defeat of the party in the by elections in Kadapa and Pulivendula is somewhat embarrassing to the party. He however denied that the party has weakened in the state.
 
Challenging the YSR congress party chief YS Jaganmohan reddy’s argument that his inheriting the political legacy of his father YSR can’t be questioned by any one, the minister asserted in a press conference in Hyderabad that there can’t be any inheritance to the chief minister’s post.

“We will reconstruct the congress party in Kadapa district again,” he said, adding the defeat of congress can’t be interpreted to mean that it had weakened. “We are still strong but it is true that we have some defects and those will be rectified,” said the minister.

Stressing that the party failed to take the message of the welfare programmes successfully to the people, the minister said congress leaders will work with more coordination in future. When asked why so many ministers took up campaigning in Kadapa and Pulivendula by elections, Botsa said that was a party affair and there was no wrong in it.

Botsa front runner for PCC chief post

The congress high command seems to be seriously considering the name of Botsa Satyanarayana for the next PCC chief even though Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has proposed the names of Union minister of state for defense M.M. Pallam Raju, housing minister Kanna Lakshminarayana and the former minister Mr Shabbir Ali for the job.