Jagan said that before long, people would look towards the YSRCP and redefine the differences between credibility and conspiracy in politics.
Sending a stern warning that the YSR Congress would continue its struggle for the welfare of the people and would closely monitor the keeping of the election promises made by the TDP, Party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy said that the day was not far away when the people would look towards his Party, and understand the differences between the politics of credibility, and the politics of conspiracy and deceit.
Addressing the Party MPs and MLAs after being elected unanimously as the leader of the YSRC Legislature Party, in Kadapa on Tuesday, he said, "Though there was a small set-back, we did not lag behind by much. Despite the TDP's tie-up with BJP and the Modi wave, the difference between the victory and defeat is just over 5 lakh votes, working out to 1.9%, which is wafer thin, and this could only happen because my heart did not permit me to make false promises like Chandrababu Naidu," he said.
"Had I done that, the roles would have been reversed, but that would be a short term gain. As the days progress and the promises fail to translate into action, resentment will grow and people will be up in arms against you, and a Party that takes up the reins with such false promises cannot win even double digit seats," he said.
Jagan said that the YSRCP would be continuously monitoring the implementation of the TDP's poll promises, or the lack of it, and would raise the issue in the Assembly and outside, and work as a responsible opposition party.
Sending a strong signal to the TDP against poaching, Jagan said that the Party had started off with 1 MP and 1 MLA and went up to 2 and 20 in the previous Houses. "When the Congress and the TDP had jointly conspired to foist false cases upon me and put me in jail, the TDP and its friendly media had spread canards that the party is finished and will fold up. The 2 MPs and 20 MLAs were solidly behind us, and did not desert the party but strengthened it, and today we are 9 MPs and 70 MLAs," he said, and thanked the party leaders for reposing faith in him and electing him as the leader of the legislature party.
"We will continue to be with the people and take up their issues more vigorously, and monitor how the poll promises of the TDP will be implemented at the ground level," he said.
Besides Chandrababu Naidu, we also have to fight his friendly media as well, which is always churning up slanted and slanderous stories," he said.
Jagan said that a big issue had been made out of his meeting with Narendra Modi. "I met him to give him a memorandum on the SOPs that Seemandhra should get, and with proposals like increasing the special status limit to 15 years, enhancing our share of power and coal, and other such issues, but a section of the media has been giving distorted and distasteful versions," he said. (INN)