As Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has successfully completed seven days of his second leg of ‘odarpu yatra' on Wednesday in coastal Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister K. Rosaiah met Congress leader Ahmed Patel here and gave a detailed report about the happenings in the yatra.
Though Mr. Rosaiah refused to comment on his discussions with Mr. Patel, who is the political secretary of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, sources said during the meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr. Jagan's yatra figured prominently besides the ensuing Assembly bypoll in the Telangana region and the ongoing Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee proceedings. Mr. Rosaiah, during his two-day stay here, met President Pratibha Patil to thank her for visiting his Ssate.
The Chief Minister also met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand, among other things, Rs.1600 crore additional assistance for police modernisation/for anti-naxal programme, one more helicopter to transport men and materials involved in anti-naxal operations.
