YSRCP will be State-centric
Hyderabad, Jan 19: Reiterating that the Party will be Andhra Pradesh centric and would not tail national parties for crumbs and minor political gains like Chandrababu Naidu, YSR Congress has said the recent talks with TRS had an orientation of states getting empowered while what TDP had earlier tried was an electoral tie-up, which was however rejected.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Party General Secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy said, 'the debate on such frivolous issues has been gaining ground while the financial irregularities that are continuing in the state have been not finding due exposure due to the unwarranted importance being given to non-issues.
The meeting of our Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and TRS Working President K Taraka Rama Rao has been blown out of proportion and TDP has been trying its best to project it as a major obstacle for the state development, while in reality it is only an initiative to bring states headed by regional parties together and emerge as a force to reckon with.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chadnrasekhara Rao had taken the initiative long back and the meeting was part of it to safeguard and further the respective state interests with like-minded political parties keeping away from tailing the Congress or BJP. The Telangana Chief Minister has recognised that Chandrababu Naidu and his TDP would be wiped out in the 2019 elections which must be the reason why TRS has rejected TDP overtures.
Chandababu Naidu has openly admitted that he had broached the topic of a possible TDP-TRS electoral alliance before Telangana assembly elections and the offer was turned down. Then he switched sides and tailed Congress and joined the Mahakutami, which met the fate it deserved.
'What Chandrababu carved for was an electoral alliance with TRS while what YSRCP discussed was the possibility of a Front of regional parties coming together and mutually help one another to protect their respective state interests and shatter the hegemony of the bi-polar nature of Indian polity.
Special Category Status (SCS) has been our demand and TRS too had endorsed it. The demarcation is clear and our leader has categorically stated that they would not have any electoral tie-up in the ensuing elections,' he said.
TDP leaders have been blowing the issue beyond its context by distorting it and are trying to create an imaginary adversary to seek political mileage while more important and serious issues of financial implications are left out in the melee.
The political swings of Chandrababu Naidu are well known and well documented. After 4.5 years of being in the coalition with BJP with the two parties mutually protecting each other on various issues, he comes out and aligns with Congress, a Party which was despised by the founder president NTR.
That was the only Party left out as he had aligned with all national Parties Left and Right to suit it political agenda as he has no moral or scruples and takes people for granted. This time around the voters are ready to teach him a lesson and his knee-jerk reaction of showering sops and welfare measures will pay no dividends as he has been exposed as a cheat who went back on his poll promises, he said.
News Posted: 19 January, 2019
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