Antiincumbency, ‘brand Modi’ will help NDA partners win: BJP
The TDPBJPJana Sena Party (JSP) alliance is of the fond hope that the antiincumbency factor caused by “pure misgovernance” of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), coupled with the magic of ‘brand Modi’, will secure a comfortable victory for it in the general elections.
“It is true that the BJP and TDP were allies in 2014. It was due to certain misunderstandings that we parted ways. But in the due course, the two parties sorted out those differences and have come back together for a cause, which is to bring curtains down on the YSRCP government,”
A.P. BJP incharge for elections Siddharth Nath Singh.
observed Siddharth Nath Singh, former Uttar Pradesh Minister and A.P. BJP incharge for elections.
In an exclusive interview with The Hindu here on Friday, Mr. Singh recalled that the alliance with the TDP had started during the time of former Prime Minister A.B. Vaj
payee, and they indeed had differences over a period of time, but then they buried the hatchet for the stated cause and became a larger group now, including the JSP.
He exuded confidence that the alliance would romp home comfortably in the elections by pointing out that the YSRCP squandered the advantage of being a formidable party with an impressive 22 Lok Sabha seats and 151 members in the Legislative Assembly.
The YSRCP government did not carry out the Central government’s welfare schemes, and delayed the centrallysponsored projects by design, for which it would pay the price. It was because Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was scared that he called the BJPTDPJSP alliance as opportunistic.
Mr. Singh claimed that the Centre had extended substantial financial assistance to the State, but the Jagan Mohan Reddy government failed to avail of it properly, and instead deprived the poor people of many schemes.
As far as the State’s capital was concerned, Mr. Singh said there was neither confusion nor a change in the BJP’s stand that the capital should remain in Amaravati, while insisting that the High Court could be shifted to Kurnool, by arguing that the “capital narrative does not mean courts, the court (High Court) is not government.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation for Amaravati, and there was no reason to change it, he observed, saying that the YSRCP government should have built it, but took a different path.
The TDP and BJP have buried the hatchet to form a larger group along with the JSP with the aim of unseating the YSRCP government. SIDDHARTH NATH SINGH
Advice to Y.S. Sharmila
APCC president Y.S. Sharmila should educate herself on the State’s demand for Special Category Status as she seemed to have not properly read the Terms & Conditions laid down in the 14th Finance Commission report, he suggested.