Jagan Resumes Attack On Sonia!

YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who has been maintaining restraint on attacking the Congress party at the Centre for quite some time, resumed the attack again on Thursday.
Addressing a gathering as part of his Odarpu Yatra in Guntur district, Jagan said Congress president Sonia Gandhi was able to run the UPA government at the Centre only because of the efforts of his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in the state.
“If not for the hard work of YSR in 2004 and 2009, Sonia Gandhi would not have been in this position,” he said.
However, Jagan did not make stronger comments against Sonia, but according to political observers, he might step up attack on her in the coming days.
Apparently, Jagan is emboldened by the support of 18 MLAs and the outcome of the Bellary bypoll result. He is perhaps of the view that he would still emerge as victorious in the elections despite the CBI inquiry against him.
All these days, there was a talk that Jagan had stopped criticizing Sonia Gandhi as part of his compromise with the central leadership of the Congress party following the CBI inquiry.

Vijayamma makes impressive maiden speech

YSR’s wife and YSR Congress Party’s sole MLA in the Assembly Vijayamma made her maiden speech in the Assembly during the debate on no-confidence motion and she made an emotional impact. Her speech was halting most of the time, but she overcame the initial hesitation a couple of minutes through the speech.
Her 16-mintue speech contained all important points she wanted to make. She reminisced fondly about her husband, pointed out the irony of the situation when she had to speak in an Assembly without YSR’s presence. She pointed out how both Congress and TDP made critical references to her late husband.
Reminding that the present government owed its existence to YSR’s hardwork, she said it was a quirk of fate that she had to vote against the same government. She also talked about how YSR worked all through his life for Congress Party and single-handedly brought it into power in the state.
She also took potshots on TDP and Chandrababu Naidu, sarcastically saying that she failed to understand whether the no-confidence was against YSR or for farmers.
Most importantly, she declared that her party as well as those who continued to be loyal towards YSR would vote for the no-confidence, whatever the motives of TDP were. She congratulated the MLAs loyal to YSR who were going to vote against Congress, even though they were aware that they might face disqualification.
She also felt that had TDP moved the confidence resolution six months earlier when Chiranjeevi had not merged his PRP with Congress, the government would have fallen.
On the whole, Vijayamma’s speech made an impact on the House, which listened to her raptly. Probably worried over the message her speech would send to the people at large, PCC Chief Botsa Satyanarayna was on his feet to clarify that Jagan deserted Congress on his own. Jagan wanted dynastic rule in the state and claimed CM’s seat as a matter of hereditary right, which was not possible in Congress, he said.
Botsa also pointed out, rather cryptically, that it was Kiran Kumar Reddy who defended Jagan when TDP charged YSR’s son with the murder of Paritala Ravi.
Vijayamma again rose to clarify that Jagan had to come out of Congress because the party did not give permission for his ‘Odarpu Yatra’. It was only towards the end of her speech that Jagan loyalists like Balineni rushed to her help.