Hyderabad, September 02: Exactly a year after his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s death, Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is facing a political dilemma as ministers and MLAs in Andhra Pradesh have now virtually deserted him.
He has no real supporters, except two, in the Andhra Pradesh council of ministers while not more than 20 MLAs are publicly backing him.
The Cabinet ministers who vowed to forego their posts if Jagan was not made the chief minister, immediately after YSR’s death in a helicopter crash on September 2 last year, have now virtually deserted him.
“I will not only quit my Cabinet post but also split the Congress party in the state if Jagan is not made the chief minister,” Forest Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy thundered as he entered the Samatha block in the Secretariat for an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on September 3 last year.
–Agencies