Senior YSRC leader Y.V. Subba Reddy on Thursday maintained that party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s recent meeting with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi was only to press for the cause of Seemandhra, which had faced “injustice” post-bifurcation.
Mr. Subba Reddy, who is also the party’s central governing council member, said Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy had amply made it clear during electioneering that whoever became the Prime Minister, the party would work with him to protect the State’s interests. “Jagan’s meeting with Mr. Modi has nothing to do with court cases,” added Mr. Subba Reddy, the party’s MP from Ongole.
On the poll debacle, he said party activists should not lose heart. In spite of the TDP’s tie-up with the BJP and the “Modi wave”, which swept across the country, the YSRC had lost by a narrow margin in most constituencies. “We will definitely stage a comeback by relentlessly fighting for people’s cause in the next five years,” he added.
“We will put pressure on the TDP to implement its poll promises including loan waiver to farmers,” said Mr. Subba Reddy, who is also the co-brother of former Chief Minister late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
On drinking water problems, particularly in the western parts of the district, he said he would press for Central and State funds to ease water shortage.
