YSR Congress Condemns TDP-BJP Alliance

Describing the alliance of the TDP and the BJP as the coming together of divisive forces and showing the weakness of Chandrababu Naidu, YSR Congress has said the coalition would have no moral sanctity, and would be blown away in the wave that is sweeping in favour of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

"The conflicting statements and interests of the BJP and the TDP since 1999 have only shown that the two parties are on a weak plank morally, and they will not succeed in stalling the onward march of the YSRCP which is getting huge support due to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy," party senior leader Ummareddy Venkateswarlu told reporters here on Sunday.

He said that the TDP and the BJP had given unconditional support to the division of the State and had been partners in the undemocratic bifurcation, with the BJP giving its nod to the Bill, the TDP floor leader boasting of casting the first vote, and Naidu himself earlier giving a letter to divide the state.

The Kakinada meeting of the BJP too had passed a resolution in favour of bifurcation and came up with a slogan of one vote - two states, he added.

Ironically, the two parties had been at loggerheads on many counts, with Naidu being on record that having a tie-up with BJP had been a historic blunder as minorities had distanced themselves from the TDP after Godhra carnage in Gujarat, Venkateswarlu noted. Naidu was also the first to demand the ouster of Narender Modi after the Godhra incident, he added, and said that BJP leaders too had said time and again that they had lost the 2004 elections due to the alliance with TDP.

In addition, the BJP had some time back released a charge-sheet against the TDP government headed by Chandrababu Naidu and said that inefficiency could be tolerated but not betrayal, and had described Naidu as a betrayer who had hijacked the government which was voted to power under the leadership of NTR, Venkateswarlu added, and said that the two parties had hurled serious abuses and allegations at each other.

Given all of this, the coming together today of the two parties showed how opportunist and morally weak they were, he averred.

The tie-up also showed how desperate the TDP was to have the backing of some party or the other as it is unable to come anywhere near to the YSRCP, Venkateswarlu said.

"Even now, Telangana leaders of the BJP have expressed their protest against the alliance. The tie-up will only hurt the sentiments of the minorities and hurt secular forces, and we see the alliance as an opportunist and desperate move," he added.

The YSRCP will sweep the 2014 elections despite all of this, Venkateswarlu concluded. (INN)