Monday 30 September 2013

YSRC shuts door on Sabbam Hari

                                                                 
                             

YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader Jaganmohan Reddy’s release from jail has opened the door for Seema-Andhra Congress leaders opposed to Telangana and the loser in the end is the Congress itself.


Angry at the Congress’s July 30 decision to divide Andhra Pradesh, these leaders are rushing to join the YSRCP, which stands for a united Andhra Pradesh.

In the past two-three days, Pinipe Vishwaroop, a state minister, and Lok Sabha MP SPY Reddy have resigned from the party to join the YSRCP.

Though chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has accepted Vishwaroop’s resignation, the resignations of about 12 Seema-Andhra ministers are pending with him from more than a month. In his resignation letter, Vishwaroop had stated the Telangana decision as the reason for his departure. According to YSRCP sources, he will contest the Lok Sabha election on the party ticket in 2014

From Hindu

YSRCP draws up agitation plan

                                                                 


The YSRCP has drawn up a month-long programme beginning October 2 in support of Samaikyandhra.

The protests will begin with indefinite fast and relay fast with Assembly constituency incharges participating.

On October 4, a tractor rally will be organised from Guntur to Vijayawada. On October 7, peaceful protests will be organised at the houses of Ministers, Congress and TDP MLAs and MLCs demanding their resignation. Farmers’ will protest at mandal headquarters on October 10.

Rally by autos and cycles will be taken out at constituency headquarters on October 17 and it will be followed up by protests by women and human chains on October 21.

Motorcycle rallies will be taken out on October 24 in Assembly constituency headquarters and on October 26 sarpanches and those who contested as sarpacnhes will go on a day’s fast at district headquarters.

Youth and students will participate in protest in Assembly constituencies on October 29. The protests will culminate in gram sabhas in panchayats and resolutions in favour of Samaikyandhra.

Doctors meet

The monthly meeting of Indian Medical Association at AMCOSA Hall with president K V Ram Prasad on Sunday opposed the bifurcation of the State citing the inequalities in growth in the state and development concentrated in and around Hyderabad.

The association has been expressing its opposition to the division of the State with rallies, demonstrations and representations to MPs to resign. Members pointed out that hospitals with state-of-the-art technology and services were established in Hyderabad both in public and private sectors and the number of M.B.B.S., post-graduation and super speciality seats were far higher in Telangana region compared to the rest of the State.

Saturday 28 September 2013

Dharmana keen on joining YSRC


Former Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, who represents Srikakulam in the Assembly, is likely to quit the Congress and join the YSR Congress, according to highly placed sources in the ruling party.

Mr. Prasada Rao, who has been conducting a series of meetings with Srikakulam and Narasannapeta leaders, sent a strong feeler that he was not able adjust with the Congress after it had taken a decision in favour of Telangana. His loyalists have also stepped pressure on him to join YSRC since the Congress lost the people’s confidence with its decision on bifurcation.

Cut-up with high command?

He is angry with the high command which forced him to resign after he was named accused in CBI charge sheet. After the elevation of Srikakulam MP Killi Kruparani as Union Minister of State for Communication and Technology, Mr. Prasada Rao lost his importance in the party. Mr .Prasada Rao’s elder brother -- Krishnadas -- is already in the YSRC and has been made convenor of the party in the district. Political analysts say it would be easy for Mr. Prasada Rao to join the YSR Congress with the support of his brother. But sources in the YSRC told The Hindu that the leadership was not keen on admitting Mr. Prasada Rao as he had levelled allegations against Jaganmohan Reddy and railed at him in the Assembly during the no-confidence motion.

They alleged that Mr. Prasada Rao criticised even Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to please AICC president Sonia Gandhi though it did not help him come out from CBI cases. “Mr. Prasada Rao and his son Rammanohar Naidu faced many allegations in various issues, including the Kannedhara lease row. Understandably, Mr. Jagan does not want to take the two into the party,” a senior YSRC leader said.

Srikakulam DCC president Narthu Narendra Yadav told The Hindu that he was not aware of Mr. Prasada Rao’s plans while admitting that the former Minister was not happy with the high command’s decision to bifurcate the State.

From Hindu

Jagan Reddy to strengthen base in Telangana

                                                                

Hyderabad: YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is now concentrating in strengthening the party in Telangana after all the prominent leaders left the party opposing the YSR Congress latest stand on Telangana.
Jagan asked the party leaders to arrange a separate meeting with Telangana leaders and district and Assembly constituency coordinators to discuss the party position.
In Telangana region, out of 119 Assembly constituencies, there are no party coordinators in at least 50 constituencies. In Telangana region, Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Adilabad, and other districts, party workers celebrated Jagan’s bail. This gave a hope to the party leadership.
“Really we were surprised to know that in many Telangana districts, party workers celebrated Jagan’s bail, everyone thought that YSRC has vanished in Telangana after its decision to support the united Andhra Pradesh,” said a former legislator of YSRC.
In fact, Jagan gave a direction to the party leaders to arrange a meeting with Telangana leaders before his bail. Jagan thought this will help to know the party position in Telangana.
The YSRC leaders were of the opinion that their party will get some seats in the next elections in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Khammam, and Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar and also some pockets of other districts. The YSRC leaders think that in Telangana area people have sympathy towards the former chief minister, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.
At the Telangana leader’s meeting, Jagan will explain to them how Telangana region will be at a loss if the state would be divided.
According to sources, party senior leader and former minister, M.V. Mysoora Reddy, prepared a report on how both areas will face the water problem after the state bifurcation. Jagan will tell the Telangana leaders why their party has taken a decision on united state, while explaining these problems.
After discussions with the Telangana leaders, Jagan will appoint party coordinators to the Assembly constituencies. “In Telangana if we get at last 25 seats we can play key role in the formation of the government,” said the YSRC leader.

From DC

Friday 27 September 2013

Jagan Mohan Reddy takes middle path

                                                                

Hyderabad: A day after his release from jail, YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, met party leaders and chalked out his future political plans.

Reddy hinted that he would work towards the formation of a secular Third Front with like-minded parties to play a key role in national politics. He will also take up a Samaikya Yatra (United AP tour) across the state soon and also meet leaders of the CPM and the Majlis to enlist their support for the cause.

On Wednesday, Reddy had a series of meetings with party legislators and senior leaders in the party’s “core group” at his Lotus Pond residence.

When developments like the Telugu Desam trying to tie up with the BJP was mentioned during one of the meetings, he reportedly said, “Let us not bother about what is happening on the TD or the Congress front. Let us stick to the principle of secularism regardless of losses or gains.”

About the allegations that his release was facilitated by the Congress high command, Mr Reddy said, “The Congress is not that strong either in the state or in other parts of the country. I feel a secular Third Front will be the best alternative and is the need of the hour; there are many parties who don’t want to work with the Congress or the BJP.”

He also mentioned BJD leader Naveen Patnaik, Trinamul leader Mamata Banerjee and SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav as fighting against both the Congress and the BJP.

About the ongoing bifurcation issue of the state, Jagan Mohan Reddy told leaders that the party was committed towards a United AP and would agitate to keep the state united. He also hinted that he would soon take up a “Samaikya Yatra” across the state in two phases with the first phase being in the Seemandhra region.

He hinted that he would try to unite the CPM and the MIM, parties that were also opposed to the state’s division, and try to form a political front.
He also suggested that party cadres and leaders should actively get involved in the agitations and be the front runners for the united AP cause.

Opposition scared of Jagan: YSRC

Asserting that the return of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to public life has electrified political atmosphere in the state, YSR Congress has said that his adversaries are in a jittery and have been spreading canards as they are scared of his popularity.

Though the Opposition parties have been spreading rumours, the fact remains that the bail was given by the court purely on merit and after the CBI completed its investigation with the directive of the Supreme Court, party senior leaders D.A. Somayajulu and Konathala Ramakrishna said here on Wednesday.

In the earlier five times, when Jagan Mohan Reddy had moved the courts for bail, the CBI always contended that the investigation was not complete.

Once the final chargesheet was filed, Jagan Mohan Reddy automatically became eligible for bail and the comments by Telugu Desam, BJP and Lok Satta leaders were made out of frustration and sheer disappointment.

Telugu Desam leaders’ allegation that YSR Congress honorary president and Jagan Mohan Reddy’s mother Y.S. Vijayalakshmi has thanked Congress president Sonia Gandhi immediately after the bail was given has no credence at all and the leaders should name the source of the information.

Jagan’s bail part of a political gameplan

                                                                            

                                                               
The Telugu Desam party district unit on Thursday accused the Congress party of having colluded with the YSRC, at a press meet held in Anantapur.
Arguing that the bail granted to YSRC president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy was part of a political game plan hatched several months ago by the Congress and the YSRC, the Penukonda MLA B.K. Parthasarathy said that both these parties were hoodwinking the justice system in the country by manipulating the CBI. “While the Congress party high command ensured that the CBI did not oppose the bail and more or less water down the charges against Jagan, the YSRC colluded with the Congress to ensure that the TDP was kept at bay,” Parthasarathy alleged.
On the other hand, Puttaparthy MLA Palle Raghunatha Reddy accused the Congress of shielding Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy who committed probably the biggest economic offence ever in the country at the altar of political expediency and said that the Congress would reap the ill effects of such a deed.

From HIndu