By SNV Sudhir
Visakhapatnam, Dec 13, 2012: Senior Congress leader, Dharmana Prasada Rao, who resigned from the State Cabinet a few months ago, sprang a surprise on Thursday by attending a meeting with top officials of the district to oversee arrangements for Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s proposed Indiramma Baata programme scheduled from December 17, in his capacity as minister in-charge of the district.
Dharamana Rao had resigned as roads and buildings minister after his name was included in the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation that was probing YSR Congress president, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets cases.
Since then, he has kept away from his ministerial duties, not attending any official meetings of his department and not going to his office in the state secretariat. Whenever he attended a programme he insisted it was as an MLA and not as a minister.
On Thursday, he took part in a meeting to review the CM’s programme, claiming it was in his capacity as district in-charge minister, even though he belongs to and was elected from neighbouring Srikakulam district.
He was accompanied by ports and infrastructure minister, Ganta Srinivasa Rao, tribal welfare minister, P. Balaraju, government whip, Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao, several Congress MLAs, the district collector, V. Seshadri, the city police commissioner, Shivadhar Reddy, and district superintendent of police, V. Sreenivas. Interestingly, a communication from the district public relations office said that district incharge minister Prasada Rao will be attending the review meet.
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