Jagan And KCR Are Poles Apart: YSR Congress

Strongly objecting to Telangana Congress spokesman Shravan Kumar's remarks that TRS president KCR had a secret pact with its president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the YSR Congress Party asked the Congress not to attribute to them a non-existent relationship.

Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, party spokesman Gattu Ramachandra Rao expressed surprise that the Telangana Congress leader, who has been with KCR till recently, chose to level such a baseless charge.

"KCR agitated for a separate Telangana state while Jaganmohan Reddy vehemently opposed the division and fought to keep the State united as it would not be possible to develop the backward areas if the state were bifurcated. They fought 2 different wars. The purposes and ideologies of both parties are totally different. How can you level such a wild and baseless charge when the 2 leaders are poles apart?" he asked.

Asserting that the YSRCP had nothing to do with KCR's press meet, Gattu said that there was nothing new in what KCR said.

"That the YSR Congress is going to form the government in Seemandhra is as incontrovertible a fact as that the sun raises in the east," he said, and added, "The entire world knows that the YSR Congress, on a winning streak, will continue its success story, and Jagan is going to become the CM."

Referring to KCR's remarks that the Telangana government would work in close coordination with the Seemandhra government, Gattu said that there is nothing wrong if he wishes to have friendly relations with the government of a neighboring State.

Gattu strongly condemned Shravan's remarks that Jagan was responsible for the deaths of 1,500 students in Telangana. Asking him not to spread canards and throw mud on Jagan, Gattu said that the Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi were responsible for the deaths, and for the distress of the Telangana people.

"There is no need for us to curry favor with any one or any party. Whoever becomes the CM in Telangana, we will put pressure on him to implement YSR's welfare schemes. Apart from that, we will also try to come to power in Telangana on our own in due course of time," Gattu averred. (INN)