The Chief Minister will not score the Surekha row in public — disciplinary committee and All India Congress Committee to decide; he told legislators to wait and stay off the microphone.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday, 24 August 2026, told reporters that the Konda Surekha issue is before the Congress disciplinary committee and that the All India Congress Committee high command’s decision will bind everyone. He declined to comment on Cabinet-drop speculation. A refusal to score the row in public is not a clearance. It is also not a removal. No Cabinet change and no published disciplinary order sit on the opened Monday cards.

After the media interaction he met available ministers, Members of the Legislative Assembly, Members of the Legislative Council and Members of Parliament. A majority at that meeting, on one public account, sought stringent action. He asked them to remain patient and not make public comments until the high command decides. An instruction to wait is not a verdict.

The row’s origin is remarks by the minister’s daughter against the Chief Minister at Geesukonda / Warangal. Public cards spell the daughter as Konda Susmitha, K Sushmitha and Sushmita Patel. This desk records the spelling conflict and will not silently merge the three forms. Forest, Endowments and Environment Minister Konda Surekha is the minister named on the Monday cards.

On one public account, the minister met All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge in Bengaluru on Sunday, 23 August, in a meeting facilitated through former All India Congress Committee in-charge Deepa Dasmunsi, according to sources on that account. Source attribution is not a published communiqué. Around 20 Congress legislators in the Assembly and Council have sought tough action. Scheduled Castes Welfare Minister Adluri Lakshman sought Cabinet removal, on one public account. Sought is the verb. Ordered is not.

A disciplinary notice is dated 19 August, with three days to reply. The minister’s reply on 20 August said it was not proper to seek her explanation for her daughter’s personal comments, that holding her responsible was against natural justice, and that she had no involvement. That is her reply as printed. It is not a committee finding.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Mahesh Kumar Goud said a preliminary report went to the All India Congress Committee and the Pradesh Congress Committee, and that the final call would come after a detailed report. Party sources on one public account — not a public order — said the committee was unsatisfied with her explanation and had prepared a report recommending action. This desk will treat that line as source attribution. It will not print it as a published All India Congress Committee order. All India Congress Committee in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and disciplinary-action-committee chairman Malli Ravi, also printed as Mallu Ravi, are named on the cards. This desk records both chairman spellings.

Hyderabad’s Secretariat is Monday’s geography. Bengaluru is Sunday’s meeting geography, as sourced. Form B and any civic-poll date are not notified. This desk will not invent a Cabinet reshuffle, a published show-cause disposal, or a quoted text of the daughter’s remarks beyond the origin place already locked.

Until the high command writes, the public ledger is a Monday Chief Minister line that the disciplinary committee and the All India Congress Committee will decide, an instruction to legislators to wait and stay off the microphone, a Sunday Bengaluru meeting with Mallikarjun Kharge as sourced, a 19 August notice and a 20 August reply, around 20 legislators seeking action, one minister seeking Cabinet removal, three public spellings of the daughter’s name, and no Cabinet change on the opened cards. The row stays with the party paper.