Will Chiru join Congress?
0 commentsChiranjeevi’s speech was more like that of a Congress leader and a die-hard YSR loyalist, rather than that of an opposition leader. He lavished praises on YSR and his leadership abilities, saying he had never seen such a mass leader in the past or would see in future. The PRP president recalled every moment of his association with YSR including his smile, his friendly appearance and his daring nature. He even recalled how he travelled along with YSR from Kadapa to Hyderabad, bypassing Nallamala forests.
Cong to wait for ’emotions to cool’ before deciding Jagan issue
0 comments’’It is not a big issue. Sometimes such things happen,’’ Mr Mukherjee said while reacting to the vociferous demand made by most Andhra Pradesh MLAs that former Chief Minister Y S R Reddy’s son Jagan Mohan Reddy be appointed as his successor.
Stating that no decision has been taken yet about the next Chief Minister, Mr Mukherjee, however, hoped that the matter be resolved and a way out would be found.
’’It is very unfortunate that Andhra Pradesh lost a tall leader and Chief Minister who was at his Zenith. Emotional upset is there.
I do hope that it will be possible for the leadership to find a way out, for the Congress legislature Party to choose and select the next leader. It may take sometime but it will resolve. Nothing has been decided as yet,’’ he said while interacting to members of Indian Women’s Press Corps here.
Regarding the demand that Jagan Mohan Reddy be made the Chief Minister, he said, emotionally upset by Mr Y S R Reddy’s untimely death, some people have suggested it on the basis of popular acceptability, but ’’sense has to be brought’’. The Congress will take appropriate decision to this at appropriate time, he added.
Asked about the possibility of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy being made the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Mukherjee jokingly quipped ’’you people are giving ideas.’’ Asked whether Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy be made the Chief Minister or not, he said, ’’I am neither ruling out anything, nor ruling in.’’
Cong appears to be in no mood to make any change in AP
0 comments“There is a Chief Minister in Andhra Pradesh. A Cabinet has taken oath. If there is a change in the situation we will inform you,” the party spokesman, Manish Tiwari, said in his daily press briefing at the AICC.
He was replying to a volley of questions on the campaign by the Jaganmohan camp for anointing him as the next Chief Minister in the wake of his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s tragic death in a helicopter crash last week.
Asked if the campaign by Mr. Jagan’s camp amounted to indiscipline, Mr. Tiwari said the party was passing through stressful times following the death of YSR and it was natural emotions would run among his supporters. The party does not consider it as indiscipline, he added.
“There is nothing as caretaker Chief Minister in the Constitution,” he said in reply to a question on incumbent K Rosaiah, who was installed in the wake of YSR’s death.
AP ministers hopeful of Jagan becoming AP CM
0 comments"We have requested them to make Jagan as chief minister.
We are hopeful that our wish would be accepted," Panchayat Raj Minister B Satyanarayana told reporters here.
Secondary Education Minister D Manikya Vara Prasad said there is no option other than Jaganmohan for the chief minister’s post.
"There is no other option. Jagan is a popular leader today," he said.
Almost all the cabinet ministers have expressed their support for making Jaganmohan as the chief minister.
In the wake of media reports that they were not cooperating with the interim Chief Minister K Rosaiah, the ministers asserted that they have full respect for him.
Rosaiah had also maintained that there were no differences in the Cabinet.
Posani defends praising YSR
0 commentsA couple of days ago, Posani issued big advertisements in the dailies, praising YSR and his immense contribution to the Congress. Perhaps, even the Congress leaders did not give such an advertisement. He described YSR as a visionary and an architecht of modern Andhra Pradesh etc. and that he was a people’s man. “YSR was the right choice of the people and nobody else could match him,” Posani said.
When media persons questioned him about his ad, Posani strongly defended it. “I don’t mind praising anybody who does or did good work for the people. In the past, I praised Chandrababu Naidu for going deep into coal mines to know the plight of mining workers. And if a leader does not do well, I criticise him. Even Chiranjeevi is no exception for it. I don’t have a double-tongue attitude,” he said.
Ministers are cooperating ,we are united :CM
0 commentsAs the party grapples with the succession issues, media reported that ministers, loyal to Jagan Mohan Reddy, the son of late YS Rajasekhara Reddy were ignoring Rosaiah and were not not attending review meetings called by him.
Rosaiah, (77), a Congress veteran who has been a minister in successive party governments, asserted on Thursday that his Council of Ministers was "united" and all the members were working "together".
We are all united. The entire Cabinet is determined to fulfil the dreams of our leader YS Rajasekhara Reddy to set an example in the country in development and welfare schemes. We are working together with proper understanding," he told reporters.
We have not yet come out of the grief of losing our beloved leader. It is not fair for the media to send a wrong message to the public through such negative campaign, the CLP statement, quoting the ministers, said.
Deputy CM post added to choices for Jagan
0 commentsSources said the choices are the post of deputy CM, a position in the Union cabinet or a post in the state party. YSR aide and chief of ’Jagan-for-CM’ campaign KVP Ramachandra Rao returned to Hyderabad on Friday to discuss the choices with Jagan.
It became clear on Thursday that the high command is not ready to give the CM’s post to Jagan at this juncture. But none of these posts will help YS Jagan and his loyalists to protect their businesses and personal interests. We have to wait for few more days to bring some closure to the discussion.