Telugu Desam to continue its Fight against Jagan's “Corruption”

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has decided to continue its fight against the alleged corruption of Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in spite of the severe drubbing it received in the just-concluded by-elections in the State.

“We will intensify our campaign to save democracy and the State by further exposing the way Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy looted the State,” senior Telugu Desam Party leader Yanamala Ramakrishnudu told media persons after the party's Polit Bureau meeting held here on Saturday.

“We are neither bogged down by the by-elections results nor getting discouraged. It's all part of politics. Our aim is to win back people and return to power in 2014,” he noted. Results of the by-elections and the party's future course of action were discussed briefly in the first meeting chaired by party president N. Chandrababu Naidu after the poll debacle.

Four reasons:
The meeting blamed the ruling Congress for the results. It held out four reasons for the results: ill-timed arrest of Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy; his transportation in a police van from Chanchalguda prison to Nampally court; statement of AICC leader Ghulam Nabi Azad that he (Jagan) would have become either Union Minister or Chief Minister had he stayed with the Congress and statements of Union Minister Vayalar Ravi that he would return to the Congress-fold in future.

“Such developments created hype and sympathy in favour Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy,” Mr. Ramakrishnudu said. The party chief would review all constituencies which went to by-elections from June 18 to 28, followed by an extended general body meeting before initiating any political moves, he explained.

The meeting was of the opinion that the party was able to retain its vote bank but had failed to attract neutral voters in its favour as the YSR Congress Party did.

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• We are not bogged down by the by-elections results: Yanamala.

• ‘Our aim is to win back people and return to power in 2014'

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