Jagan Mohan Reddy launches full-scale attack against Chandrababu Naidu

Narasapuram: Launching a scathing attack against Telugu Desam supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu, for making "false poll promises", YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday predicted that the upcoming election would be Naidu's last.

Addressing a public meeting, Jagan said that at 65, Naidu is "desperate to become chief minister of the state, and is making making false promises to achieve his dream".

He claimed that the people in the state got no benefit during the nine-year rule of Telugu Desam led by Naidu and flayed him for making promises related to waiver of farm loans and provision of employment for every household. He also blamed Naidu for losing Hyderabad to Telangana during the bifurcation of the state.

Describing as a "golden era", his father's rule on Andhra Pradesh, Jagan said that soon after becoming chief minister, he would append his first signature on four importance files dealing with payment of tuition fee to the poor students to pursue studies, hike in old-age pensions to Rs 700, provision of remunerative price to the farmers for their crops.

Jagan's attack against Naidu, comes on the day Pawan Kalyan launched a salvo against the Congress, from Hyderabad. However, unlike Pawan's rant against a party that's already facing bleak political prospects in the state, Jagan's strike seemed more focused, at a man who could be the YSCRC leader's biggest threat on the path to power.