YSRCP Demands Some Tough Answers

YSR Congress has demanded that the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy clarify the government's stand on the 26 GOs. The party has asked that the CM should categorically state if they were issued as per the business rules, or if there were any deviations.

"Dharmana Prasada Rao said that the GOs were issued on merit and according to the Government policy, and that Y S Rajasekhar Reddy did not exert any considerable influence on the issuing of the GOs. In such a case, why were the two ministers (Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasad Rao) dropped from the Cabinet, and why the sudden readiness (with which the decision was taken) when TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu vehemently demanded for it?" party Deputy Leader Sobha Nagi Reddy told reporters on Tuesday.

"On one hand the government files an affidavit stating that the 26 GOs are in order yet legal action is initiated against two ministers after Naidu goes to Delhi seeking the removal of the said ministers. This only establishes that the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government is heavily dependent on TDP and it will comply with whatever Naidu demands", she said.

Sobha Nagi Reddy also questioned Naidu's political integrity, when she pointed out that he had also issued orders for IMG Bharatha at throw-away prices.

"Yet he advocates that the ministers should be sacked and the Chief Minister meekly obliges", she said.

"Whether the state wants to give the credit of the ministers' ouster to Naidu or if the TDP leader has dictated the path with an assurance that the Kiran Kumar Reddy government will not be toppled, it seems as if the State took the decision to appease Naidu", she said.

According to her, this only shows that the two parties are in clear understanding and want to jointly fight the(ir) common adversary Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

She also lashed out at the TDP leaders who were saying that YSRCP lacks leadership. "Senior leaders from TDP have been leaving the party of late, and this is an indication of Naidu's credibility", she said. (INN)