YSRC slams Naidu for resorting to poaching

Hyderabad, May 25: Hitting out at the unethical and undemocratic practices of poaching by TDP, YSR Congress has said, Chandrababu Naidu should instead concentrate on the ways and means to implement the poll promises he has made and warned that any one crossing the floor will attract the provisions of anti-defection law.

' It is immoral and unethical for TDP to poach on YSRCP turf despite having a comfortable majority and even before the swearing-in ceremony Chandrababu Naidu encouraging defections shows the values and democratic principles he has,' Party MPs Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy and Kottapalli Geetha told reporters here on Sunday.

In a democracy anyone can opt for any party, but if the reports of TDP luring our Party MPs and MLAs into its fold should be true, they must quit the post and seek a fresh mandate to jump the line failing which their election will be null and void.

The entire exercise being taken up by TDP is a mockery of democracy. A government functions with a viable and vibrant opposition in place and we represent the voice of the people in proportion to our number seats won. If Chandrababu Naidu wants no opposition at all, it simply shows his attitude and respect towards democratic institutions, they said.

'TDP must be in a hurry and wants to swell its strength by luring elected representatives from our Party stating the status of recognized party and registered party but with the percentage of votes we have acquired anyone crossing the floor will face the anti-defection law and have to seek a re-election.

Even I have crossed over from Congress to YSRCP and quit my post immediately. My resignation was kept pending for a long time and I was elected from the party which I moved over and this is a fair democratic practice,' Rjamohan Reddy said.

Even ten days have not passed after the results were announced and TDP has been taken up a programme to lure, coerce or use such other means to improve its tally which is unethical. Instead he should be working out on the logistics to implement his poll promises of waiver of agriculture and DWACRA loans.

With the onset of monsoon very close, he should be drafting out strategies that will allow farmers to have access to easy credit and address the plight, weavers, pensioners besides providing employment and other promises he has made.

If TDP continues to such mean tactics, it will face the ire of the people and will meet the same fate of Congress which was decimated in the state, he said.

Kottapalli Geetha, the Party MP from Araku, said that she will be with the party and work under the leadership of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and scoffed the rumours that she is switching over to TDP.

'There is no truth in such rumours. I have friends in TDP as well and some of them called me up to congratulate on my victory. No one has approached me to cross over and even if there will be any such offer in future, it will be declined,' she said adding that since Narender Modi was also elected on the development plank funds flow to tribal areas will be monitored and we will work for the welfare of tribals, she said.