Naidu Promises The Moon Out Of Frustration: YSRCP

The YSR Congress party on Monday opined that the "impractical promises" and the nine-point programme announced by Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu stemmed from frustration due to all other options of getting closer to the people have proved ineffective.

“He is promising the moon in the course of his padayatra. Yet people do not believe him as his promises are in total contrast to what he has practiced while in power, be it nine-hour power, the waiver of loans or a new medicare scheme,” YSRCP spokesperson Ambati Rambabu told reporters here on Monday.

"Chandrababu Naidu’s dreams of returning to power will not materialise as his use-and-throw policy has sunk in deep in the people, his family members and party leaders as well. In order to cover up his shortcomings, he has been on a promising spree during the padayatra, without even considering the feasibility of the schemes he has been promising.", scoffs Rambabu.

“Instead of explaining how he plans on implementing the schemes he has been promising, he is taking the hypothetical route out by saying that he would implement them when he becomes the Chief Minister. This line of argument clearly shows that the aim of his padayatra for political gains.

Sharmila’s has been emulating her father YSR in the padayatra which is aimed at meeting the people to know their problems first-hand and to expose the failures of the state government and how it has diluted or destroyed YSR's welfare schemes,” he said.

Sharmila has taken up the exercise in place of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is not in a position to take up the padayatra and the growing popularity has scared Chandarbabu Naidu further. And so he has stooped to a new low and is whipping up religious and other issues attributing motives to YSR family members, he said adding that the secular credentials of YSR family need not be reestablished.

His frustration has been increasing with every passing day of Sharmila’s padayatra and his incoherent speeches and promises stand a testimony to it. “It is not necessary that everyone who undertakes padayatra becomes a chief minister. Unlike Chandrababu Naidu, Sharmila is undertaking padayatra in place of her brother and to know the pulse of the people and their plight in the aftermath of YSR,” he said.

When asked about Sharmila’s padayatra in Telangana region, he said: “In a free country anyone can carry out the democratic process of meeting the public anywhere. We don’t anticipate any trouble during her padayatra in the Telangana region. Our stand on Telangana was clearly told during the Plenary and we stick to it,” he said. (INN)