YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s decision not to encourage any defections from the opposition parties, has come as a moral blow to his Telangana counterpart and Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao.
At a time, when the TRS leadership has come under fire for merging 12 Congress MLAs with the party, Jagan announced openly in the Andhra Pradesh assembly on Thursday that he would not like to make the same mistake committed by his predecessor N Chandrababu Naidu in luring the rival party MLAs.
“If any TDP MLA wants to join our party, he has to resign from his assembly membership first. If he doesn’t resign from the TDP, the Speaker can straightaway disqualify such a lawmaker,” he said.
Jagan also took an indirect dig at the TRS leadership which lured the Congress MLAs so as to deny the leader of opposition status to Congress Legislature Party.
“As I was entering the house, some of our party MLAs suggested to me that if I could encourage defection of five TDP MLAs, Naidu will lose the status of opposition leader. But I told them that if I do the same, there is no difference between me and Naidu, who has purchased 23 of my MLAS and 3 MPs like cattle,” Jagan said.
The YSRC president’s comments would have definitely pricked KCR, but the latter will not change his plans to decimate the Congress.
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