The YSR Congress said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has been feeling insecure ever since party president and Opposition leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and explained him about the false allegations levelled against him.
Mr. Naidu’s questioning about the purpose of the meeting exposed that he was feeling insecure as the charges against Mr. Jagan did not carry any weight. Mr. Jagan had explained to the Prime Minister about the TDP leadership’s moves to engineer defections in the main opposition luring the YSRC MLAs with Cabinet berths and other offers as also the charges of corruption against Mr. Naidu, YSRC senior leader Botcha Satyanarayana said at a press conference here on Sunday.
He said the party had also taken up the special category status promised to Andhra Pradesh post bifurcation and sought the Prime Minister’s help in granting the same for accelerated development of the State. The YSRC president preferred to raise the issue with the Prime Minister as the issue could not be addressed at the State level. “The meeting took place after confirmation of Mr. Jagan’s appointment by the Prime Minister’s office and the questions raised by Mr. Naidu are childish,” he said.
Mr. Jagan, he said, took up with the Prime Minister the matter relating to announcement of minimum support price to chillies and there was nothing wrong in the Opposition leader seeking the Centre’s intervention into the issue as the State remained indifferent to the plight of the farmers.
On the Presidential elections, he said the YSRC as a political party took a stand on the election of President. “Taking a stand as a coalition partner of the NDA and giving issue based support in matters like election of the President are altogether different issues,” he said.
