All six MPs of the YSR Congress Party will resign at the end of the next Assembly session in June if Special Category Status (SCS) was not granted to Andhra Pradesh by then, said party president and Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday. In an informal chat with reporters in the Assembly lobbies here, Mr. Jagan said that his party planned to highlight denial of SCS and the resignations would trigger a debate at the national level. The party felt it should act after the Telugu Desam government completed three years in office.
Analysing the results of the graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies of the Legislative Council, he said said as many as 1.5 lakh graduates and 20,000 teachers exercised their franchise and therefore it was a referendum on the Telugu Desam government’s rule.
Mr. Jagan said it was high time that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu made all the 21 MLAs who crossed over from the YSRCP to the TDP resign and got them elected under his party banner. Asked if he was ready for elections in all the 67 Assembly constituencies from where the YSR Congress legislators were elected, he said it would be better to go for elections in all the 175 constituencies.
‘TDP claiming credit
for YSR projects’
About the World Water Day statement and the oath the MLAs were administered in the Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition said that the Chief Minister had no moral right to speak about irrigation and water management projects in the State for over 90 minutes on the occasion of World Water Day. Eighty per cent of all the major irrigation projects were completed during the reign of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and the TDP and Mr. Naidu were taking credit for their completion.
