YSRCP to meet Prez to keep State united

Hyderabad, Jan 30 (INN): Buoyed by Assembly passing the resolution rejecting the AP State Reorganisation Bill by voice vote, YSR Congress Party has said it will take the battle to Delhi and meet the President Pranab Mukharjee to reiterate the need for keeping the state united.

'Very soon YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will lead a Party delegation to Delhi and meet the President seeking his intervention in rejecting the Bill and keeping the state united,' Party Honorary President YS Vijayamma told reporters here on Thursday.

'We will go to polls in a united State and the Party will get a decisive mandate as YSR Congress was the only Party which has taken the stand to keep the state integrated while other parties had ambiguity and have deceived people through their words and deeds.

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will lead the Party to a thumping win in the next elections and bring back the golden era of YSR, who was always in favour of a united and strong state for easy delivery of development and welfare activities,' she said adding that the Party respects the sentiments of Telangana as well and is in favour of all round development which was shown in practice by YSR.

'When people who do not and cannot understand the Telugu idiom and the sentiments of the locals want to sit in judgment and divide the state, we have been in the forefront in the fight for a united state and will continue to do so.

Both Chief Minister and TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu are equally responsible for things coming to such a pass as they could not read the situation between the lines, or it could be by design as well.

While Kiran Kumar Reddy had all the time been boasting of turning the tide, he did cooperate with the high command in allowing the Bill to be tabled and has send all the required data to the Centre without a semblance of fight.

Chadrababu Naidu on the other hand had been maintaining double standards and has been encouraging his party members from both regions to speak out while he maintained stoic silence.

Waking up from the slumber, Chief Minister moved a resolution and the leader of opposition joined him in telling that there are many loopholes in the draft Bill. Why they were silent so long was not explained and their quixotic behavior is well exposed before the eyes of nation.

YSR Congress on the other hand has reacted ahead of the Congress decision to split the State and requested members cutting across party lines to join them, but they did not react and casted aspirations on us which today boomeranged on them.

We left no stone unturned and have taken up every form of agitation to keep the state united and will pursue the cause with the same spirit and vigour.

Our Party MPs and MLAs have resigned much before the CWC decision, Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and I have undertaken fast, the cadre held dharnas and we have given adjournment notices in the assembly every day besides unofficial resolution which was considered by the Speaker at last.

We have written letters to all concerned, knocked at the doors of President, Governor, Chief Minister and Speaker to convene the assembly and pass a resolution in favour of a united state.

This apart YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had successfully taken up the issue on a national level by meeting leaders of national and regional parties and put forth his contention that there is need to amend article 3 which can be misused by any Party which has 272 members in the Parliament and convinced them that the Andhra Pradesh is being bifurcated for political reasons as 70 % of the people are against the division.

While we were undertaking such constructive programmes, Chief Minister was busy in preparing roadmaps, getting clearances for the Bill from all departments in 17 hours and forcing the APNGOs to call of the strike which was at its peak and Chandrababu Naidu was speaking in terms of packages for the would-be state instead of resisting Sonia Gandhi's move to split the state to see her son as Prime Minister, she said.

'Our efforts have paid off as people have toed our line and in the coming days, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will lead the Party to a thumping victory in the next elections in a united State,' she said.