00:00Congress and a rift within the Congress party in itself, especially with a certain event that's come about yesterday.
00:06That is Konda Sureka being dropped from the cabinet.
00:09Now, post that she's dropped a big bombshell.
00:12She has to say, Konda Sureka has alleged that she was marginalized by the Chief Minister.
00:18Blackmail politics has been used by Chief Minister Yvonne Threddy.
00:21That is why she's been dropped. She's not been given a chance to explain herself even.
00:27Sacked after daughter's graft charge, that's what she's also come out to claim.
00:30There were certain comments, remarks that had been made previously by her daughter, which she had come out to, in
00:36fact, distance herself from.
00:37She'd said that these are her personal opinions, nothing to do with what I think.
00:42But despite that, there was this entire order that had come in initially from the leadership, Congress leadership, for her
00:48to, in fact, resign on her own.
00:49When she refused to do that, it was a disciplinary committee, a panel that was formed, that, in fact, came
00:56out to drop her from the very ministry.
00:59This is the latest flashpoint in Telangana political landscape as we speak.
01:05And what we are looking at is a bit of a rift within the Congress party, tensions brewing within the
01:11Congress party.
01:12But then, at the same time, there's also attacks that are being launched by the BJP, by the opposition in
01:17Telangana up against Congress itself.
01:19Because she was a member of the cabinet and she was representing women in that particular cabinet itself.
01:26She was a woman minister that we see, which is why the BJP has now come out to speak about
01:31women empowerment.
01:32And they have amped up the attack against Congress that Rahul Gandhi says that smashed the patriarchy on one side.
01:39On the other side, we see women ministers being dropped from the cabinet.
01:44So, isn't there a bit of a hypocrisy playing out here?
01:46Listen in first to what Konda Surekha has had to say mounting up the attack against the chief minister after
01:52she was dropped from the very position.
