YSR Congress Party’s chief whip in Parliament Y.V. Subba Reddy has denied any bonhomie between his party and the BJP.
“We have been consistently fighting against the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre both inside and outside Parliament over the Special Category Status (SCS) and implementation of assurances made at the time of bifurcation,” he told the media here on Sunday.
“Where is the question of any overt or covert understanding with the BJP?” he asked, and added that the YSRCP was the first to move a no-confidence motion on the SCS issue. It was the TDP, which shared power with the BJP at the Centre and in the State for four long years, that had a clandestine understanding with the saffron party, he charged.
“Why is Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu continuing the husband of a Union Minister as adviser to the government?” he asked.
TTD appointment
Referring to the appointment Sapna, wife of senior BJP leader and Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, as member of the TTD Trust Board, Mr. Reddy said “duplicity” of the TDP in taking on the BJP stood exposed. The TDP, which had all along been maintaining that SCS was no “sanjeevini,” did a flip-flop as elections were nearing, he opined.
Drought
The TDP had not taken steps to mitigate severe drought that gripped the district for the fourth year in succession, especially in the fluoride-affected western parts such as Kanigiri, Markapur, Yerragondapalem, and Giddalur Assembly segments.
The government had left in the lurch the farmers who were finding it difficult to get remunerative prices for all crops, including red gram, bengal gram, and tobacco, he added.
