It is not very sure whether YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is getting any support to his “Save Democracy” campaign in New Delhi, but he certainly has got a sympathetic response back home in Andhra Pradesh from Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy.
On Wednesday, Raghuveera came down heavily on Telugu Desam Party president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for indulging in large scale poaching of the Opposition MLAs.
“The Operation Akarsh taken up by Naidu is highly unethical and immoral. He is poaching the YSR Congress party MLAs only to win the fourth Rajya Sabha seat in the coming elections,” he alleged.
The Pradesh Congress Committee president described the defecting MLAs as worse than “beggars.” Those who got elected on one party ticket but defected to the other party later had no moral right to continue in their posts. They should immediately resign from their Assembly membership and get elected again, he demanded.
Raghuveera, however, also found fault with Jagan for letting his party MLAs to be sold out to the TDP.
“He should take everybody into confidence and have cordial relations with the MLAs. He should learn the art of managing the party,” he said.
