Congress’ announcement to contest alone in Andhra Pradesh has raised a lot of attention to the party, but another piece of information was announced today revealing that former Union minister Kotla Surprakash Reddy is deciding to withdraw his support from the Congress and shift to the Telugu Desam Party. According to sources, Kotla’s sudden decision is fuelled by his disagreement with Congress’ choice to contest alone

At a core committee meeting being presided over the Congress in-charge of the stated his dissent and continued to walk out of the meeting. It is his belief that if the parties come together to form an alliance the results would be much better and even brought up the statement Mr Rahul Gandhi made about Andhra Pradesh’s special status.

Although nothing is written in stone yet, he has scheduled a meeting to discuss the details and make a final decision regarding the same.