Time to move on, say Seemandhra Cong ministers

They say with a 1,000 km coastline, Andhra will become big economic power like any other big coastal economy in world

Senior ministers in the Kiran Kumar Reddy's cabinet on Friday said it was time to move on and rebuild the Congress party in Seemandhra.

“All of us tried our level best to keep the state united, but in vain. It is of no use to keep thinking about the past. We have to now focus on strengthening the party as well as the development of the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh,” Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, finance minister who hails from the coastal district of Nellore said on Friday.

Speaking to the media along with revenue minister N Raghuveera Reddy, he said they are ready to get to the party work at district level and appealed all the cadres and leaders of the Congress party to do the same.

In an apparent jibe at Kiran Kumar Reddy, who had quit the Congress party apart from resigning from the post of chief minister, Anam said it was wrong to blame the party for the division.

“The decision to bifurcate the state was made only after every political party asked for it. It seems some leaders were singling out their own party just to escape from the responsibilities they are supposed to discharge at a time the state was going through a turmoil,” they said. The ministers also said with a 1,000-km coastline, the Andhra region would become a big economic power like any other big coastal economies in the world.