YSR CONGRESS NEWS

Jana, Uttam ‘edgy’ over YSR Congress consolidating position in Nalgonda

2013-11-02T08:47:00.004+05:30

An attempt by the YSR Congress Party to consolidate its position in at least five Assembly constituencies in Nalgonda district is said to be the cause for strong reaction of Congress Ministers — K. Jana Reddy and N. Uttam Kumar Reddy — to the visit of party honorary president Y.S. Vijayamma on Thursday.

The senior Ministers, known to be soft spoken and for steering clear of controversies, gave a call to obstruct Ms. Vijayamma’s tour to rain-affected mandals of Nalgonda district on the ground that her party had taken a ‘U’ turn on the statehood issue.

But, the real cause for their call is the systematic bid by YSR Congress leadership to strengthen its base in Huzurnagar, Kodad, Miryalaguda and Nagarjunasagar Assembly constituencies. Mr. Jana Reddy and Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy represent the Nagarjunasagar and Huzurnagar constituencies respectively.

Congress sources say the four constituencies have sizable population of people who have migrated from Andhra because of abundant water resources and fertile lands.

While Huzurnagar and Kodad are close to Krishna district, Nagarjunasagar abuts Macherla in Guntur district.

YSR Congress leaders claim that Dr. Srikant Reddy is able to increase his support base in Huzurnagar constituency while there are two to three aspirants in Kodad, Miryalaguda and Nagarjunasagar where YSR Congress may field candidates. It is said that Mr. Jana Reddy and Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy, both aspirants for the Chief Minister’s post once the State is divided, do not want the YSR Congress to spoil their chances. Mr. Jana Reddy on Friday justified the protests against Ms. Vijayamma’s tour. He said as responsible Telangana leaders they wanted to protest against those who were opposing State division and Telangana formation.

The YSRC had gone back on its word after extending its letter of support to Telangana. Hence, people had confronted them democratically, he said.

From Hindu

Jagan faces T-lawyers’ ire

2013-11-01T08:00:00.000+05:30

YSR Congress farmers’ wing Prakasam district president Mareddy Subba Reddy on Thursday urged the State government to provide Rs.10,000 per acre as compensation to farmers who had lost their crops due to rain.

After visiting the flood-affected areas, he told reporters here that cotton crop in over 41,000 hectares was the worst- affected in Ongole, Parchur, S.N. Padu, and Addanki Assembly constituencies.

The name of the tiller should be included instead of landlord during the enumeration of losses, he said. Party SC Cell president Kancharla Sudhakar was present.

It was unfortunate that the government had not still cleared the compensation due to farmers who had lost their crops due to Neelam cyclone. It had also failed to come out with concrete steps to mitigate the suffering of farmers, he opined.

YSRC to pressure UPA govt. for farm loan waiver

2013-10-29T20:40:00.000+05:30

The YSRC honorary president Y.S. Vijayalakshmi on Monday promised to exert pressure on the UPA government for waiver of agricultural loans in the cyclone-affected areas. She visited farm fields ravaged by floods and the affected victims at Narayanapuram in Unguturu and Duvva in Tanuku mandal of of West Godavari district. She also visited Goteru and Kanteru drains which caused floods, submerging farm fields downstream in view of their poor condition.

She waded through the flood water to reach out to the victims and lend them a patient hearing at Narayanapuram. The affected farmers showed her bundles of damaged paddy plants with a request for help. She observed that Tanuku and Achanta mandals bore the brunt of the cyclonic ravages on a large scale.

Ms. Vijayalakshmi said it was highly impossible for the farmers to bail themselves out from the debt burden in the face of extensive damage the floods have caused to their farm fields. It was a fit case for waiver of farm loans as such a measure also would provide a soothing effect to the victims in real terms, she said. Ms. Vijayalakshmi appealed to the government to take up steps to procure discoloured paddy from the growers in the flood-hit areas by relaxing procurement norms, keeping in mind the scale of devastation. She said the Nandamuru (new) aqueduct across the Yarrakalva, constructed with Rs. 450 crore during the period of her husband late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy as Chief Minister, remained useless.

Consequently, thousands of acres of farm fields downstream Bhimavaram and those located in the upper reaches up to Nallajarla became vulnerable to floods every time, she said.

From Hindu

Congress resents Jagan’s remarks on Sonia

2013-10-28T20:09:00.001+05:30

Congress leaders on Sunday took serious exception to what they called ‘intemperate’ and ‘objectionable’ remarks by YSR Congress chief Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy against their leaders Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.

Referring to the ‘Samaikya Sankharavam’ public meeting by the YSR Congress here on Saturday, Congress leaders found it strange that Mr. Jagan chose to target the Chief Minister, who was opposing bifurcation of the State tooth and nail.

Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal and Rajya Sabha member V.Hanumantha Rao hit out at the Kadapa MP. Mr. Rajagopal accused Mr. Jagan of eyeing the Chief Minister’s seat by taking up the slogan of united Andhra Pradesh.

Accusing the YSR Congress chief of entering into an understanding with the Congress leadership, Mr. Rajagopal said the former has become an adopted son of the ruling party.

The fact that the YSRCP leader did not utter a word against the TRS only proved that the two parties were part of a deal to back the Congress.

Mr. Hanumantha Rao on the other hand sought to know why Mr. Jagan kept silent when his father had encouraged leaders from Telangana to raise the demand for separate State.

At the fag end of the press conference addressed by Mr. Rajagopal, a remark made by him against representatives of a Telugu channel and newspaper owned by Mr. Jagan led to arguments.

From Hindu

Jagan seeks support of regional parties to stall Telangana Bill

2013-10-27T12:51:00.000+05:30

YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday urged leaders of the Trinamool Congress, the AIADMK and the Biju Janata Dal not to see the process of bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh as an isolated case and ensure that the Telangana Bill is stalled in Parliament.

The Congress was bent on dividing the State for the sake of “votes and seats.” By maintaining silence on the developments in A.P., they would give scope to the Congress for division of West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Punjab since it was votes alone that mattered for the ruling party.

Asserting that his party would win 30 Lok Sabha seats in the coming elections, Mr. Jagan declared that it would support a government that was committed to a united A.P. “We will emerge as a force that can have its say in national politics,” he said, addressing a public meeting at the Lal Bahadur stadium in support of a united State here against the backdrop of the Centre fast-tracking the bifurcation process.

His statement assumes significance as it runs contrary to criticism by the Telugu Desam and others that his party would sail with the Congress after the 2014 polls.

Mr. Jagan launched a frontal attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, accusing her of dividing the State to make her son Rahul Gandhi Prime Minister by garnering more seats from A.P. “She is dividing the State for her son’s political future and playing with the future of our children,” he said.Referring to the Centre’s decision to make Hyderabad the joint capital for 10 years, he wondered why Seemandhra people were being asked to leave after a decade. “Ms. Gandhi married Rajiv Gandhi in 1969, took Indian citizenship 30 years ago in 1983. How will she respond if a Bill is introduced in Parliament asking the people born abroad to leave the country? This is the question being asked by the people who have an attachment with Hyderabad/Telangana for six decades,” he said.

In his 45-minute-long speech, Mr. Jagan dwelt at length on how the Seemandhra region would suffer in irrigation, education and employment and lose its say in Hyderabad. He equated the party’s fight against bifurcation with a struggle between ‘Delhi’s arrogance’ and ‘Telugu self-respect.’ It was aimed at countering the Congress’ designs to weaken a strong State like Andhra Pradesh which accounts for third highest number (42) of Lok Sabha seats.

From Hindu

YSRC gears up for Hyderabad meet

2013-10-25T21:04:00.000+05:30

Women functionaries of YSR Congress went round Mochampet, Ravindranagar, Agadi, Chemmumiyapet, Almaspet and some other areas in Kadapa city on Thursday, applied kumkum to women and invited them to the Samaikya Sankharavam meeting in Hyderabad on Saturday.

YSR Congress leaders S.B. Amjad Basha, Maseema Babu, Munna, Shamsher, Kareemullah, Sridevi and Krishnaveni told the people and women that YSRC President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy was committed to a united State and the party was fighting for the cause.

Meanwhile, 16 women members of YSRC staged relay hunger strike today, on the 23rd day of the party’s relay fast protest, in front of Kadapa Collectorate. Former Kadapa municipal chairperson Bola Padmavathi and party functionaries including A. Sridevi, G. Kannamma, A. Veeramma, C. Thulasamma, S. Vali Jan and S. Noorjehan undertook fast on Thursday.

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Telangana organisations plan to obstruct Jagan’s meeting

2013-10-24T19:52:00.000+05:30

Some Telangana organisations have given a call to obstruct the ‘Samaikhya Sankharam’ meeting of YSR Congress here on Saturday which has got the permission of police.

Roundtable

Notable among the organisations is the joint action committee of Osmania University students which has planned to mobilise students from districts for the purpose. It will organise a roundtable on the university campus on Friday to chalk out a strategy. The advocates JAC and the Praja Sanghala JAC, led by Gajjala Kantham, have also given a similar call.

The political JAC headed by M. Kodandaram, however, said the organisation had not discussed the issue yet.

The Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) V.S.K. Kaumudi said a general alert was issued to police to keep vigil against any obstruction to the meeting. The force in districts was also asked to be watchful.

From Hindu

No alliance with our ‘enemy’ Congress, says YSRC

2013-10-22T11:24:00.001+05:30

Piqued at the Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) allegation of behind-the-scene deal with the Congress, the YSR Congress Party has lashed out at both the parties for turning the tables.

Central committee member Bhumana Karunakar Reddy made it clear that their party was not just an opposition, but a sworn ‘enemy’ to the Congress and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. “By its undemocratic outlook, suppressive measures, authoritarian attitude, anti-people stand and vindictive politics, the Congress has turned out to be our first enemy and we will ensure that the party is uprooted from the State’s political landscape and rendered a non-entity, akin to States like Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,” he announced at a media conference here on Monday.

Taking serious exception to the Union government’s unilateral decision to bifurcate the State, paying little heed to the genuine concerns of the Seemandhra people, he said the Congress and the TDP had emerged traitors of the region. “TDP support is UPA’s strength”, he quipped, recalling the ‘nexus’ between the two, as witnessed during voting on FDI, MLC elections, no-confidence motion and Panchayat elections.

“Even as public outrage grew by day over the CWC decision, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy remained in deep slumber for ten days before proclaiming to be a Samaikyandhra champion,” he charged.

In a similar note, he flayed the TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu for his initial response of seeking Rs. 4 lakh crore from the Centre in the wake of bifurcation. Dubbing the public representatives of both the parties as ‘traitors of Samaikyandhra movement’, he observed that they feigned support only out of fear of backlash from their constituents.

From Hindu

‘YSRC meet will provide platform for integrationists’

2013-10-21T14:33:00.001+05:30

The October 26 Samaikya Sankharavam in Hyderabad led by YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will provide a platform for all integrationists across the State, including Telanganites, to forcefully articulate the demand for united Andhra Pradesh, party Chief Whip Balineni Srinivasa Reddy said on Sunday.
Speaking after releasing the poster for the mega event to bring together lakhs of Samaikyandhra protagonists cutting across party lines, Mr Srinivasa Reddy maintained that a majority of the people in the State, including those in Telangana, wanted the State to remain united. He said people were confused whether TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu's fast was either for State division or united AP. .
People were perplexed as to how could Mr Naidu diagnosed of suffering from jaundice could resume his ''Atma Gaurva Bus yatra'' from Srikakulam, he asked.
He held a meeting with Assembly constituency coordinators in Prakasam district and decided to arrange for over 200 buses and a special train from here to mobilise more than one lakh people from the district to Hyderabad for the Saturday's meet.

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Jagan supporters warn OU students

2013-10-19T10:35:00.000+05:30

Activists of the students’ wing of the integrationist YSR Congress on Friday issued a warning to their counterparts at Osmania University for threatening to disrupt the party’s “Samaikya Sankaaravam” in Hyderabad later this month. The YSRC students’ wing leaders led by its city president G. Prasanna Sravanna Kumar symbolically submitted a petition to Mahatma Gandhi with a plea to the apostle of peace to change the minds of OU students. The OU students should understand that meeting was meant to protect the interests of people from Telangana as well Seemandhra.

In Ongole, YSR Congress Prakasam district Convenor Naukasani Balaji exhorted the party cadre from the district to storm the State capital on October 26 to open the eyes of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was turning a blind eye to the demand of a majority people of the State for united Andhra Pradesh.

The State Assembly should be convened immediately for adoption of a resolution for keeping the state united, he told a press conference here.

YSRC gearing up for ‘Samaikya Sankharavam

2013-10-19T10:29:00.003+05:30

The cadre and leaders of the YSR Congress of the four North Andhra districts are preparing to participate in the ‘Samaikya Sankharavam’ scheduled to be held in Hyderabad on October 26, party’s North Andhra convener Sujay Krishna Ranga Rao has said.

Addressing the media here on Friday, he said the party had arranged four trains — one from each district — to facilitate the cadre to reach Hyderabad. Other modes of transport were also being arranged.

Each constituency in-charge was asked to mobilise 5,000 people for the meeting. The party leaders were confident that the target would be crossed without much effort, he added.

Talking about problems that the Seemandhra region would face in case of bifurcation of the State, he said the Major Irrigation Minister, who hails from Telangana, was obstructing the progress of the Polavaram project, which the Centre wanted to take up as a national project.

“It is unfortunate that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre is hell bent on dividing the State, ignoring the popular sentiment of the people of the Seemandhra region,” YSRC leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao said.

The Congress was proving to be ingrate by working against the interests of the people who trusted the party and returned it to power for two consecutive terms, he said.

Even with 42 seats in the Lok Sabha, the State was getting a raw deal. “Once it is divided, who is going to listen to the 17 or 25 members representing the State. The State is being divided as part of a larger conspiracy to weaken it,” he said.

The Congress is working against the interests of the people who trusted the party and returned it to power for two consecutive terms

Dadi Veerabhadra Rao

YSRC leader

Party is organising four trains, one each from the four North Andhra districts

Each constituency in-charge has been asked to mobilise 5,000 people

UPA government criticised for ignoring the sentiment of the Seemandhra region

It is alleged that the State is being divided as part of a larger conspiracy to weaken it

From Hindu

No poll tie-up with YSR Congress, says Narayana

2013-10-18T10:46:00.001+05:30

Amid talk of a “third front’’ at the national level to bring together non-Congress and non-BJP parties, Communist Party of India State Secretary K.Narayana on Thursday ruled out a truck with the YSR Congress for elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assembly.
Addressing a press conference here, he said his party would prefer to fight the elections on its own strength in the State instead of “aligning with a party led by the corrupt Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy for the sake of some seats.”
Flays CPI(M) stand
“There is no scope for a tie-up with the TDP, which is moving closer to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance,” he added.
“It is sheer hypocrisy on the part of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to hold talks with the YSR Congress to explore possibilities of an electoral understanding even while asserting that the CPI(M) is for larger Left unity,'' he said, referring to a delegation of the YSR Congress meeting CPI(M) leaders in New Delhi recently.
On the view that the YSR Congress and the CPI(M) had taken the same stand on statehood for Telangana, he recalled that the CPI(M) too had an electoral understanding with the Congress and the TDP in 2004 and 2009, respectively, even as both these parties had a truck with the TRS, which championed the cause of statehood for Telangana.

Jagan to meet Governor today

2013-10-17T10:36:00.000+05:30

YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy will call on Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Thursday and petition him seeking to summon the Assembly immediately for introducing a resolution on the bifurcation issue.

On September 30, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy had submitted a similar memorandum to the Governor.

Meanwhile, senior YSR Congress leader M.V. Mysura Reddy accused the Congress and the TDP of continuing with their conspiracy to divide the State. He said Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was trying to douse the flames of 74-day-old Seemandhra agiation, while Congress MPs and Union Ministers had joined TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu in seeking equal justice to both regions on the issue of division.

Mysura Reddy alleged that the continuation of conspiracy by the TDP and Congress was at the instance of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

From Hindu

Jagan's mother meets Rajnath in Delhi; doctors ask Jagan to call off strike as his health deteriorates

2013-10-10T10:43:00.000+05:30

YSR Congress chief YS Vijayamma on Wednesday met BJP president Rajnath Singh and sought his party's support for their stand on the issue of a separate Telangana state in the wake of popular protests over the Centre's decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.

During the meeting that lasted about 20 minutes, Vijayamma, who was accompanied by other party leaders, handed over a memorandum to Rajnath Singh on the bifurcation issue.

But asked about any possibility of the two parties joining hands ahead of Lok Sabha elections, she said the time was not right to talk about alliances as AP was burning.

Vijayamma requested the BJP chief to stick to an earlier resolution by LK Advani that AP should be bifurcated either through a state assembly resolution or by the second states reorganisation commission.

YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy is on a fast against the bifurcation of the state and is urging the Centre against dividing AP.

YSR Congress MP Rajamohan Reddy said, "He (Singh) knows everything about AP. Though they (BJP) are in favour of Telangana, the way things are happening in AP, they, too, are unhappy.

"We came to keep the state of AP united. That is the only programme we have and we are meeting leaders of all political parties," he added.

Responding to speculation over future alliances, Rajamohan also said, "We never discussed any politics".

'Jagan's health a cause of concern'

YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy's indefinite hunger strike for the rollback of Union Cabinet's decision to divide Andhra Pradesh entered fifth day today with his party raising concerns over his health.

Jagan launched his indefinite fast on October 5 at his residence here for unified Andhra Pradesh.

Meanwhile, YSRCP likened the Group of Ministers (GoM), constituted by Centre to go into issues concerning division of Andhra Pradesh, to Simon Commission under British rule, and demanded Centre forthwith terminate further process for bifurcation of the southern state.

"We demand that state government convene a special session of Assembly to pass a resolution to keep the state united," Ramakrishna said. He said YSRP wanted all Seemandhra leaders and also Central ministers and MPs to quit to create a constitutional crisis which would stall the process of dividing Andhra Pradesh.

Doctors, who examined Jagan today, advised him to call off the fast as his sugar level is falling, a senior party leader said. "Our party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's fast has entered the fifth day. His sugar level is falling and doctors have strongly advised him to withdraw the fast," YSRCP senior leader Konatala Ramakrishna told reporters.

Jagan launched his indefinite fast on October 5 at his residence here for unified Andhra Pradesh.

Meanwhile, YSRCP likened the Group of Ministers (GoM), constituted by Centre to go into issues concerning division of Andhra Pradesh, to Simon Commission under British rule, and demanded Centre forthwith terminate further process for bifurcation of the southern state.

"We demand that state government convene a special session of Assembly to pass a resolution to keep the state united," Ramakrishna said. He said YSRP wanted all Seemandhra leaders and also Central ministers and MPs to quit to create a constitutional crisis which would stall the process of dividing Andhra Pradesh.

Alleging that Centre lacked concern for the sentiments of crores of people who are on strike for the past 70 days, the YSRCP leader maintained the process of division should be stopped only by creating a constitutional crisis as told by Jagan.

Jagan suffers dehydration on Day 4

2013-10-09T11:30:00.001+05:30

YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy suffered from dehydration on the fourth day of his indefinite fast on Tuesday, although his vital parameters were within permissible limits.

A team of doctors from the Osmania General Hospital examined him in the evening and advised him to take fluids, while he complained of headache and back pain.

Several people from different parts of the State visited the venue of his hunger strike venue and expressed solidarity.

Meanwhile, YSRC leader Bhumana Karunakar Reddy joined issue with AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh and asserted that at no point time did his party accept the proposal for the State’s bifurcation.

Condemning Mr. Digvijay remarks, Mr. Karunakar Reddy said the party did not support division in the letter given to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

Trying to distort the contents of the letter at this juncture was highly objectionable, he added.

A delegation of YSRC leaders led by honorary president Vijayamma, had met CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and DMK floor leader in Rajya Sabha Kanimozhi in New Delhi, where they sought support for an integrated State.

Jagan stable as fast enters 3rd day

2013-10-08T10:44:00.001+05:30

The indefinite fast by YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy entered the third day on Monday even as members of Secretariat, Samaikya Udyogulu JAC Forum, called on him and expressed solidarity.
Talking to reporters after meeting Mr. Jagan at the hunger strike venue, the fourm’s chairman, Muralikrishna, lauded the stand taken by YSRC chief and wanted other parties too to support the cause of a united State. If all parties adopt a similar position, the Centre would be forced to roll back its decision on the lines of the recent withdrawal of an ordinance.
A team of doctors from Osmania General Hospital examined Mr. Jagan on Monday evening and declared that his health condition was stable with blood sugar levels and blood pressure remaining normal. The doctors advised him to take fluids when he complained of back pain.
YSRC spokesperson Ambati Rambabu said the indefinite fast launched by TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu without withdrawing the letter given by him earlier exposed his double standards. Ridiculing Mr. Naidu, he said it seemed that he was in a hurry wanting the Centre to hasten the division process.
He said AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh speaking in terms of package and Mr. Naidu too mentioning about a special package after the announcement of division showed that they were working in tandem.

From Hindu

Naidu, Jagan confusing Seemandhra people: TRS

2013-10-07T17:17:00.001+05:30

Telangana Rasthra Samithi (TRS) has criticised the leaderships of both Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YSR Congress for confusing the people of Seemandhra with their fasting protests.
The two parties were now trying to deceive the people of Seemandhra by taking up such fasts as they had given written consent for the formation of Telangana in the past, TRS leader T. Harish Rao said here on Sunday. He asked both TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy to at least explain to the people of Seemandhra as to why they were protesting now after supporting Telangana.
Taking a dig at Mr. Naidu the TRS leader said that the TDP president had been consistently inconsistent on the issue of Telangana from the beginning.
Apart from Telangana, his inconsistency was known to all on subsidised rice scheme, agriculture, total prohibition, BJP and Narendra Modi among others.
Harish Rao
cautions BJP
The TRS leader also cautioned the BJP leadership about Mr. Naidu’s moves to have a tie-up with it again and said the Telangana people would suspect the BJP too if it went ahead with it.
Accusing Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy of patronising the agitation in Seemandhra, Mr. Harish Rao also blamed him for not deploying sufficient security at power installations in the two regions.
He alleged that it was the party ranks of YSR Congress and TDP that were threatening the employees at power installations to stay away from duties.
He sought to know why power generation was not stopped in private installations such as Lanco and warned the government against imposing any power cuts in Telangana.

From Hindu

YSRC leaders launch fast

2013-10-03T11:13:00.002+05:30

YSR Congress in charges for 10 Assembly constituencies in Kadapa district launched 36-hour hunger strike in the respective Assembly constituency headquarters on Wednesday demanding a united State.

The YSRC leaders demanded that Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu withdraw his letter favouring bifurcation of the State and agitate for a united State.

Those undertaking hunger strike were YSR Congress MLC C. Narayana Reddy and former municipal chairman T. Suryanarayana Reddy in Jammalamadugu, MLA G. Srikanth Reddy in Rayachoti, MLA A. Amarnath Reddy in Rajampet, MLA K. Srinivasulu in Railway Kodur, YSRC Kadapa city president S.B.

Amjad Basha before Kadapa Collectorate, YSRC youth wing district president Y.S. Avinash Reddy in Pulivendula, former Kadapa Mayor P. Raveendranath Reddy in Kamalapuram, former MLA D.C. Govind Reddy in Badvel, former MLA S. Raghurami Reddy in Mydukur and E.V. Sudhakar Reddy in Proddatur.

YSRC leaders T.K. Afzal Ali Khan, N. Madhava Reddy, B. Nityananda Reddy, Jilani and Teachers JAC leader S. Elias Reddy and other leaders expressed solidarity to Mr. Amjad Basha.

Meanwhile, Irrigation engineers and employees launched a 48-hour relay hunger strike before the Irrigation SE office here, under the aegis of JAC leaders Jilani Basha and Marreddy. Mandal education officers launched relay hunger strike in all the 51 mandals in Kadapa district on Wednesday. The agitation would be continued until the Congress withdraws the bifurcation move, MEOs Association district president V. Nagamuni Reddy said.

Chittoor

The in-charges of the YSRC at the constituency level launched relay hunger strike. Punganur former MLA and YSRC leader, P. Ramachandra Reddy, sat on hunger strike at Punganur with hundreds of followers. In Palamaner, former MLA, N. Amarnatha Reddy, went round the town and spoke to the various JACs, before launching his fast at Nehru centre. In Piler, party convener Chintala Ramachachandra Reddy sat on fast. In Puthalapattu, Madanapalle, Tamballapalle and GD Nellore constituencies, the party leaders and activists joined the hunger strike camps of their conveners in large numbers.

Anantapur

The YSRC leaders across the district took to the streets holding hunger strikes for varying periods in support of Samaikyandhra.

While the Anantapur YSRC MLA, B Gurunath Reddy, launched a 36-hour long fast opposite the Nandini hotel centre close to the statue of Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy, senior leader and aspirant from the Uravakonda assembly constituency Y. Viswesvar Reddy sat on a 30-hour hunger strike along with his followers at the old bus stand Uravakonda town.

Speaking at the venue of the hunger strike, Mr. Visvesvar Reddy said that the YSRC was the only party in the State besides the CPI (M) which was against the division of the State and demanded that the Centre heed the legitimate demands of the people.

From Hindu

Jagan pays homage to YSR at Idupulapaya

2013-10-02T11:44:00.001+05:30

YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy visited Idupulapaya after 18 months and paid homage to his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy at his memorial, along with his family members.
He offered prayers at YSR ghat along with his mother and Pulivendula MLA Y.S. Vijayamma, his wife Y.S. Bharati, uncle Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy and other relatives.
Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother garlanded the statue of YSR.

A large number of party activists and his followers from all over Kadapa and the neighbouring districts converged on Idupulapaya and greeted him. Later, he left for his residence in Idupulapaya, where people and party leaders met him.
MLAs Mekapati Chandrasekhar Reddy, A. Amarnath Reddy, G. Srikanth Reddy, K. Srinivasulu, MLC C. Narayana Reddy, party’s Rajampet Parliamentary constituency in-charge Mithun Reddy and district youth wing president Y.S. Avinash Reddy, sarpanches, PACS directors and members participated.
Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy boarded Venkatadri Express bound to Hyderabad at Yerraguntla railway station on Tuesday night.

From Hindu

Court permits Jagan to visit Idupulapaya

2013-10-01T11:38:00.001+05:30

The principal Special Court for CBI Cases here on Monday relaxed conditions of bail granted to Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in the quid pro quo investments case and allowed him to visit Idupulapaya in Kadapa district to pay respects at his father’s memorial on October 1.

The court, however, turned down Mr. Jagan’s plea for visiting Guntur on October 4 for participating in a farmers’ rally there.

During the arguments on the relaxation petition earlier in the day, counsel for CBI K. Surender argued against giving any relaxation in the bail conditions stating that Mr. Jagan was a highly influential person and there was every possibility that he could threaten witnesses if allowed to leave Hyderabad as most of the witnesses were staying outside the city.

Besides, bail petitions of some of the accused in the case were still pending and any relaxation in Mr. Jagan’s bail conditions would hamper the process.

Highly technical case

Appearing for Mr. Jagan, senior counsel Susheel Kumar said the case against his client was a highly technical one based on documents and all documents and depositions of witnesses were already in the custody of the investigation agency.

There was no chance of his client tampering with any evidence or threatening any witness he was against foregoing the freedom granted by the court by resorting to any action that would attract the court’s attention, he explained.

In his orders later in the evening, the Judge ordered that Mr. Jagan should not visit any other place except Idupulapaya, should neither influence any witness nor address any public meeting and return to the city on Wednesday morning.

From Hindu

YSRC ‘Samaikya Sankharavam’ in Hyderabad

2013-10-01T11:34:00.000+05:30

The YSR Congress will organise a massive public meeting (Samaikya Sankharavam) in the city sometime between October15 and 20 to keep AP united.

Party chief Y.S. Jagan-mohan Reddy hit out at the Congress and the TDP. Observing that with YSRC, CPI(M) and MIM favouring united State, he asked people to demand every political party to give a letter supporting the cause of an integrated State.

From Hindu

YSRC shuts door on Sabbam Hari

2013-09-30T10:48:00.001+05:30

YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader Jaganmohan Reddy’s release from jail has opened the door for Seema-Andhra Congress leaders opposed to Telangana and the loser in the end is the Congress itself.

Angry at the Congress’s July 30 decision to divide Andhra Pradesh, these leaders are rushing to join the YSRCP, which stands for a united Andhra Pradesh.

In the past two-three days, Pinipe Vishwaroop, a state minister, and Lok Sabha MP SPY Reddy have resigned from the party to join the YSRCP.

Though chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has accepted Vishwaroop’s resignation, the resignations of about 12 Seema-Andhra ministers are pending with him from more than a month. In his resignation letter, Vishwaroop had stated the Telangana decision as the reason for his departure. According to YSRCP sources, he will contest the Lok Sabha election on the party ticket in 2014

From Hindu

YSRCP draws up agitation plan

2013-09-30T10:46:00.002+05:30

The YSRCP has drawn up a month-long programme beginning October 2 in support of Samaikyandhra.

The protests will begin with indefinite fast and relay fast with Assembly constituency incharges participating.

On October 4, a tractor rally will be organised from Guntur to Vijayawada. On October 7, peaceful protests will be organised at the houses of Ministers, Congress and TDP MLAs and MLCs demanding their resignation. Farmers’ will protest at mandal headquarters on October 10.

Rally by autos and cycles will be taken out at constituency headquarters on October 17 and it will be followed up by protests by women and human chains on October 21.

Motorcycle rallies will be taken out on October 24 in Assembly constituency headquarters and on October 26 sarpanches and those who contested as sarpacnhes will go on a day’s fast at district headquarters.

Youth and students will participate in protest in Assembly constituencies on October 29. The protests will culminate in gram sabhas in panchayats and resolutions in favour of Samaikyandhra.

Doctors meet

The monthly meeting of Indian Medical Association at AMCOSA Hall with president K V Ram Prasad on Sunday opposed the bifurcation of the State citing the inequalities in growth in the state and development concentrated in and around Hyderabad.

The association has been expressing its opposition to the division of the State with rallies, demonstrations and representations to MPs to resign. Members pointed out that hospitals with state-of-the-art technology and services were established in Hyderabad both in public and private sectors and the number of M.B.B.S., post-graduation and super speciality seats were far higher in Telangana region compared to the rest of the State.

Dharmana keen on joining YSRC

2013-09-28T16:26:00.002+05:30

Former Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, who represents Srikakulam in the Assembly, is likely to quit the Congress and join the YSR Congress, according to highly placed sources in the ruling party.

Mr. Prasada Rao, who has been conducting a series of meetings with Srikakulam and Narasannapeta leaders, sent a strong feeler that he was not able adjust with the Congress after it had taken a decision in favour of Telangana. His loyalists have also stepped pressure on him to join YSRC since the Congress lost the people’s confidence with its decision on bifurcation.

Cut-up with high command?

He is angry with the high command which forced him to resign after he was named accused in CBI charge sheet. After the elevation of Srikakulam MP Killi Kruparani as Union Minister of State for Communication and Technology, Mr. Prasada Rao lost his importance in the party. Mr .Prasada Rao’s elder brother -- Krishnadas -- is already in the YSRC and has been made convenor of the party in the district. Political analysts say it would be easy for Mr. Prasada Rao to join the YSR Congress with the support of his brother. But sources in the YSRC told The Hindu that the leadership was not keen on admitting Mr. Prasada Rao as he had levelled allegations against Jaganmohan Reddy and railed at him in the Assembly during the no-confidence motion.

They alleged that Mr. Prasada Rao criticised even Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to please AICC president Sonia Gandhi though it did not help him come out from CBI cases. “Mr. Prasada Rao and his son Rammanohar Naidu faced many allegations in various issues, including the Kannedhara lease row. Understandably, Mr. Jagan does not want to take the two into the party,” a senior YSRC leader said.

Srikakulam DCC president Narthu Narendra Yadav told The Hindu that he was not aware of Mr. Prasada Rao’s plans while admitting that the former Minister was not happy with the high command’s decision to bifurcate the State.

From Hindu

Jagan Reddy to strengthen base in Telangana

2013-09-28T10:46:00.002+05:30

Hyderabad: YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is now concentrating in strengthening the party in Telangana after all the prominent leaders left the party opposing the YSR Congress latest stand on Telangana.

Jagan asked the party leaders to arrange a separate meeting with Telangana leaders and district and Assembly constituency coordinators to discuss the party position.

In Telangana region, out of 119 Assembly constituencies, there are no party coordinators in at least 50 constituencies. In Telangana region, Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Adilabad, and other districts, party workers celebrated Jagan’s bail. This gave a hope to the party leadership.

“Really we were surprised to know that in many Telangana districts, party workers celebrated Jagan’s bail, everyone thought that YSRC has vanished in Telangana after its decision to support the united Andhra Pradesh,” said a former legislator of YSRC.

In fact, Jagan gave a direction to the party leaders to arrange a meeting with Telangana leaders before his bail. Jagan thought this will help to know the party position in Telangana.

The YSRC leaders were of the opinion that their party will get some seats in the next elections in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Khammam, and Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar and also some pockets of other districts. The YSRC leaders think that in Telangana area people have sympathy towards the former chief minister, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.

At the Telangana leader’s meeting, Jagan will explain to them how Telangana region will be at a loss if the state would be divided.

According to sources, party senior leader and former minister, M.V. Mysoora Reddy, prepared a report on how both areas will face the water problem after the state bifurcation. Jagan will tell the Telangana leaders why their party has taken a decision on united state, while explaining these problems.

After discussions with the Telangana leaders, Jagan will appoint party coordinators to the Assembly constituencies. “In Telangana if we get at last 25 seats we can play key role in the formation of the government,” said the YSRC leader.

From DC