Should the YSR Congress Party go for a tie-up during the 2019 elections or should it contest alone was the question put to the delegates of the party’s third national plenary held last week in Amaravati.
All the delegates who attended the party plenary session were given a feedback form with the title “Andhra Pradesh YSR Congress Party Cadre Pulse-2017.”
Third Vision Research and Services, a market survey agency, was entrusted the task of finding out the “pulse” of the “cadre.”
In a supplementary to the main question on political ally, the delegates were asked to mention the name of a political party they wanted YSR Congress to tie up with. Senior Party leader and chairman of the plenary organising committee Ummareddi Venkateswarlu told The Hindu that the feedback was being collated and the outcome would be released on Wednesday.
According to party sources, the outcome should have been announced at the plenary itself, but it could not be done because of a delay in passing of resolutions.
A couple of resolutions had to be dropped to give more time to party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to explain at length the party’s election manifesto and his planned padayatra. Interestingly, the feedback forms were given to the delegates before Mr. Jagan announced his poll agenda.
Rahul favourite
Another interesting query in the questionnaire was who they wanted as the Prime Minister of the country in 2019. Top on the list of choices is Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The other names in the list are Union Minister Sushma Swaraj (BJP), Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, another Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, and finally, BJP president Amit Shah.
The questionnaire asked only two queries about Assembly constituencies, the first one asked for the names of two persons who would be suitable as party candidate and the second question was about the worst problem of the constituency.
The questionnaire also had several multiple choice questions on how they rate TDP’s rule, YSRC role, whether they want SCS and whether prohibition could be introduced in a phased manner in the State.
