As part of the State-wide agitation to be taken up by the Opposition YSR Congress Party demanding Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh, the party’s president and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy will stage a dharna in front of the Collectorate in Kakinada on Tuesday. He will arrive there at 11 a.m. and sit on the agitation for a couple of hours. Former Minister and YSRC leader Kolusu Parthasarathy said that a rally would be taken out in Vijayawada from the YSR Statue at Police Control Room to the Lenin Statue Centre and public meeting will be held at the dharna chowk at Alankar Centre. Addressing a press conference here, he asked what sort of a signal was the ruling Telugu Desam sending to the Opposition parties by saying that “confrontation with the Centre would be counter-productive”. The special status was a right of the Andhra Pradesh people, so were the benefits mentioned in the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act (APRA). It was the duty of the Opposition parties to agitate for what was due to the State. To cast aspersions on them for fighting with the Centre was against federal spirit, Mr. Parthasarathy said.
There was a second message in the aspersions, he said. The State government was indirectly saying that it would not release funds to the Assembly constituencies where Opposition party MLAs were elected. Addressing press conference at Kakinada, the party’s East Godavari district unit president K. Kanna Babu said that at a time when the BJP and the TDP changed their stand on the special status and resorted to deceiving the people of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Jagan decided to fight for the status for the cause of the future generations.
Jagan decided to fight for the status for the cause of the future generations
K. Kanna Babu
YSRC leader
