Vijayamma campaign in Parkal today

                                                                                      

YSR Congress Party honorary president Vijayamma will make her maiden foray into Telangana by campaigning in Parkal Assembly constituency for her party candidate Konda Surekha on Friday.

This will be the first time, a senior YSR Congress leader will be entering north Telangana after party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy was forced to abort his ‘Odarpu yatra' in Mahabubabad two years ago by Telangana activists. The party leaders had earlier planned an elaborate campaign but decided to curtail it fearing trouble.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti and other organisations had initially announced their resolve to obstruct the tour but decided against doing so. The political JAC chairman M. Kodandaram said they would not disrupt the YSR Congress leader's tour programme. “We want her to spell out her party stand on Telangana statehood issue,” he told The Hindu .

According to YSRCP sources, Ms. Vijayamma will board a train on Friday in Gudur and to reach Warangal. Campaign managers of Ms. Vijayamma are reluctant to disclose her tour programme but said she would participate in a road show in Geesukonda mandal headquarters at 10.30 a.m. and address a meeting in Parkal town. She will then take a train to Nellore to continue her campaign in Nellore Lok Sabha constituency.

from Hindu