YSR legacy still haunts Congress
Hyderabad: Pro-YSR elements in the Congress party are teaming up in the State in a bid to stake claim for a larger say and decisive role in reviving the fast eroding support base as well as its ebbing glory.
They are toying with the idea of organising a 'bheti' ' a meeting with a specific agenda of making it clear to the high command that the party would not stand to gain by distancing itself from the shadow of the late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
They are likely to adopt a resolution opposing the move to discard, once and for all, YSRs name tag carried by a majority of the welfare programmes of the State government.
They are highly critical of the recommendations of the ministers' panel for giving a new identity to the programmes introduced during YSR's regime.
The entire new leadership in the party, barring a few 'opportunistic politicians', owed their allegiance to the former chief minister. It included more than 70 MLAs and a few MPs who still continued in the party.
They claim to be equally loyal to the party high command and had never entertained the idea of deserting the party. For them, the YSR Congress Party is as good an opposition party as the Telugu Desam. They had no love last for Jaganmohan Reddy.
They claim to be more legitimate than Jaganmohan Reddy to inherit the political legacy of YSR. One of the young MLAs said: 'Our loyalty to YSR was beyond any sort of correction. We were deprived of channels to ventilate our feelings.
We were not able to oppose the anti-YSR campaign in the party for the fear of being identified and branded as pro-YSRCP'.
News Posted: 1 August, 2012
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