Kiran offers party tickets to Samaikya activists
VISAKHAPATNAM: Former chief minister and Jai Samaikyandhra Party president N Kiran Kumar Reddy is pulling out all stops to take his party into the public.
In a bid to garner support for his new party, he held discussions with various joint action committees (JACs) which actively participated during the Samaikyandhra agitation, at a function hall in the city Monday and offered the party tickets to some aspirants.
The former chief minister who is touring the region explained to the participating JACs led by students, doctors, lawyers, Muslims and other groups that the party was formed only for them.
Taking a dig at rumours that some parties were offering tickets for money, he said that tickets would be given to those who worked to keep the state united.
'There is no need to worry about having to 'book' your tickets by paying money unlike other parties. Being the only party supporting a unified state, we need a strong representation in the Lok Sabha to defeat the moves to take the bifurcation process further,' he said.
Kiran Kumar Reddy strongly felt that the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill requires some constitutional amendments and the new government at the Centre might rush it through in the first session of the Lok Sabha itself.
He declared that the party would never join hands with Congress under any circumstances. Instead, the party would fight along with any party which supports the cause of a united state.
'No matter what may come, we will not want to be associated with the Congress party which divided the Telugu people. All pro-united state forces should come together and spread the message to ensure that the parties that were in favour of bifurcation do not get elected,' he added.
Citing the admission of a petition filed by him and other integrationists in the Supreme Court against the state bifurcation as a first victory for the integrationists, Kiran explained that efforts are being made to get the case heard in the Apex court before the appointed day of June 2.
He promised continuation of reservations for Muslims if voted to power and said the party was trying to get all the legal hurdles cleared on the issue.
MPs Sabbam Hari and Harsha Kumar along with members of Muslim JAC, Doctors JAC, Lawyers JAC and Students JAC members attended the meeting.
News Posted: 18 March, 2014
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