Former MLA Vangaveeti Radhakrishna joined the YSR
Congress Party amidst tremendous bonhomie and enthusiasm. Party
president and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy welcomed him with
unexpected warmth.
Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said that he
was not just taking Mr. Radhakrishna into the party, but was looking up
to him for support as a brother, just like Rama and Lakshmana. Mr.
Jaganmohan Reddy said that his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Mr.
Radhakrishna's father Mohana Ranga Rao were good friends and shared a
brotherhood and the same would continue between the sons.
Mr.
Radhakrishna and Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy earlier came from Enikepadu in a
huge motorcade of over 2,000 two-wheelers and several cars. Youth
participated with enthusiasm wearing different types of masks and wigs.
The
meeting for Mr. Radhakrishna to join the party was held at the statute
of assassinated Congress MLA and his father Mohana Ranga Rao on Mahatma
Gandhi Road as announced earlier.
Mr. Jaganmohan
Reddy garlanded the statute of Mohana Ranga Rao, while Mr. Radhakrishna
garlanded a temporary bust of YSR put on the dais for the occasion.
After district convenor Samineni Udaya Bhanu formally announced that Mr.
Radhakrishna was joining the party, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy put a party
scarf round his neck and gave him a warm hug.
Addressing
the gathering Mr. Radhakrishna said that YSR gave land to the poor of
the city at the nominal rate of Rs. 100 a square yard and that land had
today become Rs. 40,000 per square yard. He said that the poor of
Vijayawada would never forget YSR.
‘Always loyal'
Mr.
Radhakrishna said that he and his father's admirers would be with Mr.
Jaganmohan Reddy come what may. He said that 23 years had passed since
his father was assassinated, but the people of Vijayawada have been
loyal to his family electing his mother Ratnakumari and then him to the
State Assembly.
He said that the leaders of Congress
may have betrayed YSR's family, but the people were still with them. He
said the people of the city were fight for house-site pattas and for the
Machilipatnam port.
‘Golden era'
Responding
to him, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said that a ‘golden era' was coming. His
father gave land to the people at Rs. 100 per square yard, but he would
give them land at Rs. 50 per square yard. Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said that
once the YSR Congress comes to power it would complete the
Machilipatnam port in two years.
Former corporators
Adbul Khadar, Buddha Jagannatham, Avala Maruthi, PCC secretary G
Mallikarjuna Raju, more Congress leaders, Badita Sankar Lokesh, Vaddi
Vasu, BJP State committee member B.Nagalakshmi and TDP city leader Kama
Devaraju joined the party along with Mr. Radhakrishna.
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