Overview
- After a cabinet meeting on October 23, Konda Surekha called the episode a “storm in a teacup” and apologized for her daughter’s remarks about the chief minister.
- Party interlocutors, including AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud, engaged with Surekha and indicated the issue would be resolved amicably.
- The controversy followed the government’s termination of her OSD N Sumanth over reported extortion and bribery allegations, which prompted a Task Force police visit to her Hyderabad residence.
- Surekha had skipped the previous cabinet meeting and subsequently met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy earlier in the week as efforts to ease tensions gathered pace.
- Her daughter, Konda Sushmitha, had confronted plain-clothes police at the home and alleged targeting of her parents on community grounds, claims the minister publicly distanced herself from.