Hyderabad:
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has nominated Andhra Chief Minister K Rosaiah as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Andhra Pradesh.
This comes a day after the meeting of Congress MLAs, in which late YSR Reddy's son Jaganmohan moved a resolution asking Sonia Gandhi to name the new leader. The resolution was unanimously passed.
PTI adds:"In accordance with the unanimous resolution of the CLP, Andhra Pradesh, AICC President is pleased to nominate K Rosaiah as the Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Andhra Pradesh," senior leader M Veerappa Moily, party in-charge for the state, said.
The announcement by Moily came after he and another senior leader Pranab Mukherjee met Gandhi.
The issue of CLP leader had become ticklish in the wake of 'Jagan-for-CM' campaign by the supporters of Reddy who pressed the party High Command to appoint the late Chief Minister's 37-year-old son and Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the top post.