Congress MLA Dwarampudi meets Vijayamma

Kakinada Congress MLA Dwarampudi Chandrasekhara Reddy met YSR Congress honorary president Y S Vijayamma here on Thursday and expressed his support to her.

Another Congress MLA Sujaya Krishna Ranga Rao, who has already announced his decision to join the YSR Congress, also met Vijayamma. The latest addition to the collection of Congress MLAs by the YSRC is Parvatipuram MLA Jaya Mani. Both Dwarampudi and Jaya Mani are expected to join the YSR Congress.

Dwarampudi has always been with Jagan as he was given ticket by Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. However, he has been away from the Jagan camp since some time. Now he has apparently decided to come back to the Jagan fold. Dwarampudi possibly had second thoughts after Eluru MLA Aalla Nani and Bobbili MLA Sujay Krishna Ranga Rao have expressed solidarity with Jagan and have announced their intention to resign from the Congress party, legislature membership and join the YSRC.

It is being said that there was overwhelming public opinion against Jagan’s arrest and persecution of the family of YSR, and the MLAs were responding as per the public opinion. Ranga Rao has said that people of his constituency were of the view that Jagan was innocent and he was arrested deliberately to prevent his party from winning the by-elections. He said that in response to the public opinion he had decided to quit Congress and join the YSRC. (NSS)