YSR Congress Party today castigated TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu for his uncharitable remarks against Party Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. Talking to reporters here, Party official spokesperson Gattu Ramachandra Rao said Mr Jagan and Mr Naidu were two contrasting personalities while his leader had sacrificed high positions. He said Mr Naidu was only resorting to character assassination and was trying to defame Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy by hurling allegations and abuses.
While the TDP leader only had two-acre land before marriage, he should explain as to how he could get hold of the multi-crore Heritage Foods. People who invested in his company were given Rajya Sabha seat, while YSR had told many times that he was a tax payer from his student days itself, he said. Mr Chandrababu Naidu was an embodiment of corruption and manipulation while YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had promised to give a corruption-free state which serves the people and takes care of the marginalised section of society, students, farmers and old age people. Stating that Mr Reddy won the Kadapa Parliament, Pulivendula and Kovur assembly seats on his newly formed party, Mr Naidu has never won an election on his own, barring the 1999 polls where arithmetic of having a pact with BJP has fetched him in the backdrop of Kargil war, he said. Value-based politics and credibility were the founding pillars of YSR Congress party while Mr Naidu on his part, has appropriated TDP from NTR and had driven away all the family members of the founder president in a methodic manner, he said adding that there was no truth in Naidu alleging that YSRC has tied up with Congress. UNI