Vijayawada: The fact that the YSR Congress, which was one of the few parties to adopt a strong Samaikyandhra stand before the state was bifurcated, has not shifted its party to the AP capital region is giving its detractors ammunition to attack it with.
While most of the other political parties and the AP Secretariat have shifted offices to Amaravati, the YSRC still operates from Hyderabad. Even the AP unit of the Congress, which does not have even a single seat in the Assembly, functions from Vijayawada.
YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has not changed his residence or the state party office to Amravati. He has not visited Vijayawada or Amaravati in over two months, sending a wrong message among the cadre.
At the time of bifurcation, the YSRC took the stand of Samaikyandhra (united Andhra), due to which it suffered great losses, while the TD, which focused on both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh regions, successfully formed the government in residuary AP.
Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s reluctance to shift to the AP capital region has given the TD the opportunity to allege that the YSRC has a secret understanding with the TRS and its president failed in AP because of his legal cases.
AP TD chief Kala Venkat Rao said the YSRC was not functioning from AP as Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy has been exposed before the people.
Refuting the allegations, YSRC MLA G. Srikanth Reddy said: “Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was caught red-handed in vote-for-note case and ran from Hyderabad. We have 10 years of flexible time to establish Secretariat in AP.”
“We shall move to Amaravati as early as possible and Chandrababu Naidu has no right to accuse us. We shall fight against his corruption and raise our voice along with people in a democratic way,” he said.
Political analyst K. Sudhakar Chary said, “It is the need of the hour that the YSRC has to make its presence felt in AP or else it might project the wrong impression among the people and other parties.”
