Former MP and senior Congress leader Chinta Mohan on Friday called upon the people to reject all those forces and parties that were seeking to continue their political dominance with unchecked corruption and monopoly in successor state of Andhra Pradesh.
He asserted that a non-corrupt, clean leader like veteran communist leader late Puchhalapalli Sundarayya should emerge as a third alternative in the Chief Minister race in 2019 elections.
Addressing a press conference held at Indira Bhavan here, Mr. Chinta Mohan lamented that AP was the only South Indian state where no leader from the politically and economically backward sections including ‘Kapus’ and BCs could occupy the top post in over 60 years of its history.
Stating that this monopoly had led to huge corruption and concentration of wealth, Mr. Mohan said social justice would suffer greater setbacks in the days to come if this trend was allowed to be continued further. He called upon the like-minded parties to come together and bring about unity in the fight against political corruption.
Mr. Mohan asked YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to clarify whether his YSR Congress Party was a friendly or a rival party to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre. “Though I posed this question a few days ago already, there has been no answer from the Opposition leader till now,” he added.
Mr. Mohan said the community represented by Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy ruled AP for over 40 years while the other community belonging to the present Chief Minister ruled for over 20 years.
He evaded reply to a question on Jana Sena leader Pawan Kalyan, saying that he had nothing to say about a party which was yet to get a symbol allotted to it by the Election Commission.
