Hyderabad, January 09: Taking serious exception to the Congress MLAs attending a program in which a former MLA had joined the Jagan bandwagon, the Medical and Health Minster, Dr D L Ravindra Reddy, has asked them to resign and get re-elected on the ticket of Congress rebel leader, Mr Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s party.
Talking to mediapersons at the CLP on Saturday, Mr Ravindra Reddy alleged that Mr Jagan was threatening the Congress MLAs to support him. Stating that it was unethical to be in Congress party and support Mr Jagan, the minister said that the five MLAs from Kadapa should resign to the Congress party and the legislature as Mr Jagan and his mother, Ms Vijayalakshmi had done.
Dr Reddy, once a close follower of late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, said that Mr Jagan was advising his followers to remain in the Congress party and still follow him. How could Congress MLAs sail with him when he was criticizing the Congress party and its president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, he questioned.
Stating that the political uncertainty should end, he said that Kadapa should be the battle ground for it. Stating that the five MLAs supporting Mr Jagan were elected on the Congress ticket given by the party president, Ms Sonia Gandhi and the B-Form given by the PCC Chief, Mr D Srinivas, Mr Reddy challenged them to resign and get re-elected. “If they demand, I will also resign and get re-elected on the Hand symbol from the Congress party”, he challenged. He said that only then the political uncertainty would end and the people would get clarity.
Referring to Mr Jagan’s statement that he got elected on YSR’s policies, he said they were the Congress policies and not YSR’s.
Taking strong exception to the former TDP MLA who joined the Jagan’s party stating that an Italian government was ruling the country, he said that it was the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who was ruling the country and he was an Indian. He said that the former TDP MLA contested to the Assembly five times and got elected only twice.
Dr Reddy also dismissed reports of a Telugu news channel stating that he had supported the hunger strike of the TDP chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu. He said the channel owners were gloating with money power and thought they could get away with whatever they say.
——–NSS