Kanna, Geeta, Ponnala's fate hangs in balance
Hyderabad: The resigning of two CBI charge-sheeted ministers, home minister Sabita Indira Reddy and minister for R&B, Dharmana Prasad Rao, has benumbed three other ministers of the six facing CBI probe into their alleged misuse of office in favour of late YS Rajaeskhara Reddy and his son Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Now party circles indicate it is only a matter of time before the party asks the three to quit.
Highly placed sources told that party president Sonia Gandhi has given her directive clearly. No minister should remain in office after he or she is charge-sheeted in a criminal case.
Only Sabita and Dharmana have been charge-sheeted, while the other three ministers ' Kanna Lakshminarayana, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Dr J Geeta Reddy ' are yet to be charge-sheeted. Of the six ministers, Mopidevi Venkataramana Rao has been in jail for over seven months.
During a meeting with the CM, Sonia Gandhi asked him to apply the same principle as she did in the cases of the two Union ministers ' PK Bansal and Aswani Kumar ' who had to quit their posts following exposure of brazen corruption and immoral charges against them. Her direction is binding on State cabinet ministers too. The three ministers are currently away attending official programmes.
News Posted: 20 May, 2013
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