Senior YSR Congress Party leader Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy on Friday demanded that all the MLAs, who had quit the party and joined the ruling TDP, should resign as legislators and re-contest polls.
Reddy, who was speaking ahead of Mahanadu, the annual jamboree of the TDP to be held in Tirupati, criticised the party for engineering defections.
“All the legislators (now in TDP) should prove their worth by quitting and re-contesting. People of the state will give their judgement,” he said.
The YSRCP should not waste its time in making such demands. There is no way the defected legislators are going to resign and prove their worth once again.
As of now, the defections are being engineered to prevent the single Rajya Sabha seat for YSRCP. Therefore, the Party’s immediate objective is to keep the rest of its MLA’s together. Emotional appeals will not work with politicians.
NTR begged the people he had given a life to, asking them to come back with him. They paid no heed to him and stayed with Chandrababu. So, appealing to the morals of a politician is like smiling at a King Cobra in order to avoid being bitten by it.
