Speaking at a press meet today AP Congress Committee President Mr N Raghuveera Reddy, said that the Congress Seemandhra Campaign would start from the 21st of March at Vijayanagaram and end on the 27th at Anantapur and Kurnool. Speaking further about the exodus of the senior Congress leaders he said that the responsible leaders in the party have left and the Party certainly feels their loss. But the people are not permanent, the Party is and there is no dearth of workers in the party.

He said that the Congress believes in change and when a similar situation happened in the year 1978 there was new influx of leaders and it would repeat again. Congress was receiving requests from the youth and also the reserved categories who are expressing their faith in the leadership. The youth are the future leaders and Congress party welcomes the youth who have interest in serving the nation.He went on to say that the reserved categories were also asking for reservations in the General Category and this shows the interest in joining the party. He said that nature and attitude of the other parties would be revealed soon once the elections were declared.