The growing demand for separate Rayalaseema state seems to have landed YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in an embarrassing situation.
According to party sources, Jagan, who is trying to rebuild his vote bank in coastal Andhra, particularly East and West Godavari districts, has found himself in a tight spot with his own party leaders making tall statements on Rayalseema statehood.
While YSR Congress party’s political affairs committee member M V Mysura Reddy declared that he was ready to lead the agitation for separate Seema, party MLA G Srikanth Reddy also openly announced his support to the demand.
This has naturally irked Jagan, who has interest all over Andhra Pradesh. If his party rakes up the separate Seema demand, he will have to confine himself to four districts and his party would lose grip on the remaining nine coastal Andhra districts.
Jagan is learnt to have called the Seema leaders and pulled them up, asking them to keep their mouths shut.
