Hyderabad: YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday presented himself as the only saviour of United AP at his party’s Samaikya Shankaravam in the city.
“Let us win 30 Lok Sabha seats in the next general elections, then we will see who can divide the state. We can dictate terms to Delhi, we can make someone the Prime Minister who will keep the state united,” Jagan Mohan Reddy told the packed audience at the LB Stadium.
The YSRC is the first political party to hold a pro-United AP public meeting in Hyderabad. After a brief period of rain, the sun was out for most of the meeting. People from Telangana also attended the meeting in large numbers.
The tone and tenor of Jagan Mohan Reddy’s 45-minute speech was while he alone could keep the state united, AICC president Sonia Gandhi was arrogant, Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu was fighting for a package instead of a united state, and CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was cheating people by appearing to oppose the split, but actually implementing Gandhi’s agenda.
Jagan criticises Sonia
“This is the fight between Delhi’s arrogance and the self-respect of Telugu people,” Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
Targeting Gandhi for the first time after being released on bail, he alleged, “Sonia Gandhi is playing with the future of our children only to make her son Rahul the Prime Minister.”
He asked if it was justified to divide the state for the sake of votes and seats. “Telugu people are living together for more than 60 years, and if anyone is asked to go from Hyderabad, is it justified,” he asked.
He said the Gandhis had married in 1968, and Gandhi took Indian citizenship in1983. “If a Bill is passed in Parliament that all persons who acquired Indian citizenship should return to their native countries, will Gandhi be prepared to go back to Italy,” he asked.
He said he was sure that all Congress leaders would 'behave like drunken monkeys.'
“Certainly, Gandhi won’t go back to her native land because she has a 30-year-old relationship with India. Then how could Gandhi split the Telugu people who are living together for more than 60 years!”
Jagan Mohan Reddy wanted Sonia Gandhi to read her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi’s speech made in Parliament, in 1972, on the state division issue.
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