A turning point, avers TDP; but YSRCP, Cong. say it’s opportunistic
TDP national general secretary N. Lokesh said on ‘X’ that the TDP, Jana Sena Party (JSP) and BJP joined forces to bring Andhra Pradesh back on the growth track.
‘’This is a significant moment for our State, which has suffered and lived through its darkest phase in history over the last five years. History will record this alliance as a turning point, a necessity that positively transformed the State and the lives of the people of A.P.,” Mr. Lokesh observed.
Development agenda
BJP State general secretary S. Vishnuvardhan Reddy said on ‘X’ that development of Andhra Pradesh was the ultimate priority of the BJP and it was possible with a “double engine sarkar.”
With TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu’s experience and JSP chief Pawan Kalyan’s enthusiasm, the TDPJSPBJP alliance would fight together in the upcoming elections and take forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Viksit Bharat.
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP P.V. Midhun Reddy reaffirmed the party’s resilience against the propaganda of the opposition parties, while emphasising on the lack of public trust in the TDP, JSP and BJP.
He called upon the BJP to address unfulfilled promises regarding the A.P. Reorganization Act, and criticised the alliance with TDP as prompted by concerns over Mr. Naidu’s legal issues.
‘Defeating Jagan a daunting task’
TDP MP Kesineni Srinivas, who recently joined the YSRCP, remarked that N.T. Rama Rao had founded the TDP to uphold the selfrespect of the Telugu people, a principle that was compromised by Mr. Naidu in Delhi.
Regardless of the collective efforts by the opposition parties, defeating
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was a daunting task, he asserted.
Water Resources Minister Ambati Rambabu called the alliance as “unethical and opportunistic,” while pointing out that it was allegedly at the behest of the TDP stones were pelted at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s vehicle in Tirupati in 2018 and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan had slammed the Centre for giving Andhra Pradesh “stale laddoos.” Speaking to media persons at Sattenapalli in Guntur district on Saturday, Mr. Rambabu said people would not believe the TDP and JSP’s claim that it was in public interest they forged the alliance, having decided to make Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy the Chief Minister again.
He insisted that TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu and JSP chief Pawan Kalyan pleaded with Mr. Shah to let them join the NDA to reach their “selfish goals,” but they were presenting a different picture to the masses with the hope to win the elections.
APCC president Y.S. Sharmila said Mr. Naidu should explain the reasons for joining hands with the BJP, with which his party was in alliance in 2014, and tell what they had achieved then, and observed that all of them (TDP, BJP and Jana Sena Party) were opportunists.
‘Naidu lacks confidence’
Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam, IT and Industries Minister Gudivada Amarnath alleged that all the opposition parties were coming together as “they are unable to face Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy.” Mr. Amarnath alleged that it was not the first time Mr. Naidu formed alliances before the elections. Except during the 2019 elections, Mr. Naidu had joined hands with various parties in every election, he said, adding that the former Chief Minister “is relying on alliances due to lack of confidence and fear of losing at the hustings.”