Jagan dares TDP to make its stand clear on MPs resignations

Eluru: Hailing the resignation of five MPs for their posts, YSRCP president YS Jaganmohan Reddy said the party has committed to Special Category Status (SCS) for the state and would fight ensuing elections on the same issue.

Addressing a gathering during his ongoing PrajaSankalpa Yatra, at Dammennu village in Undrajavarammandal of Nidadavole Assembly constituency, the YSRCP chief said that had all the 25 MPs of the state resigned, the Centre would have climbed down.

Describing the resignations of five party MPs 14-months ahead of their term as credible, Jagan said the party’s commitment to SCS stands tall on the political moral plank and they would treat it as an honour to fight the elections on the issue.

The TDP was afraid to take a clear stand on the issue and was rattled about the MPs resignations, he said. “We will treat it as an honour to fight the election on SCS plank and if Chandrababu Naidu fields his candidates, people will know who is supporting the SCS and who is opposing the issue,” Jagan said.

He observed that it would be good for YSRCP if TDP fields its candidates in the bypolls. It would expose who was in favour of SCS to AP and who opposed it, the YSRCP chief said and added since the MPs had resigned 14 months ahead of the general election, the by-polls were inevitable.

Stating that Naidu bought over opposition MPs and MLAs like cattle, he asked as to why were these MPs and MLAs not disqualified? Naidu made 4 of these 23 MLAs ministers, he said and asked as to why he not applies the anti-defection law and get them disqualified by the speaker.

“I salute the five MPs who had quit 14 months ahead of their term and Naidu has deprived us the opportunity to gain national attention by agreeing to join hands in the en mass resignations,” he pointed out.

Stating that politics touched a new low in Naidu’s four-year rule, he said people would lose faith in the political system if public life had such figures.