The overwhelming response to the
mass hunger strike undertaken by former Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has rattled not only the state Congress, but also the party High Command, said former MLA Bajireddy Govardhan Reddy on Tuesday.
Govardhan Reddy stated that the mass hunger strike had put the Congress in jitters, while the people of the state realised that the absence of former Chief Minister, the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, had been filled to a large extent by his son.
He said that the unreserved love and adulation by the farmers for whose cause Jaganmohan Reddy had taken up the hunger strike were very much visible by their huge turnout at the site of the mass fast.
Govardhan Reddy said that the turnout was much better than expected, with over one and a half lakh persons from the farming and non-farming community heeding Jaganmohan Reddy's call, and thronging to the fasting spot near the Prakasam Barrage.
He said that people of the state, irrespective of region, religion, caste, creed or social standing, had assembled at the spot to give support to the former Kadapa MP.
Staunch Jagan supporter B Ravolu Somireddy, former DCCP chairman of Nalgonda, said that around 10,000 farmers from his district were present at the hunger strike, and they would remain there till the 48-hour strike ended.
Courtesy: INN