YSRCP president and former Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who has been focusing more on criticizing chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and ignoring deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan in recent days, has again suddenly raised his voice making very critical and insulting comments against him.
He said that Pawan became an MLA all at once in his life, and looking at his behavior, he is more of a Corporator, less of an MLA. During the YSRCP regime, he claimed it was he who gave opposition status to Chandrababu. Even though five TDP MLAs were ready to sit with him and his party was ready to grab 10 more TDP MLAs, he opposed the move and gave opposition status to Chandrababu.
He made it clear that there are no norms on the need of minimum numbers to get opposition status anywhere in the country. He reminded that there are both ruling and opposition parties in the government. He asked how can you be both ruling and opposition when you are in power?, he asked.
Jana Sena political affairs secretary and minister Nadendla Manohar strongly refuting Jagan’s comments asked, “Can’t we say that you are more of a chicken sword… less of an axe? Everyone knows how Babai was murdered! It is not appropriate to make comments like ‘You have a mouth’.”
Manohar was furious that the man who claimed to get up to 175 seats, but fell to 11, lost his mind and was talking as he pleased. He criticized the comments as if they were made with a criminal mind. He questioned why there was a need to hold a special press meet and criticize Pawan Kalyan?
Nadendla then challenged Jagan by calling him a work-from-Bangalore MLA. “Usually, MLAs go to their own constituencies after the assembly sessions are over and are available to the people. He doesn’t come to the assembly, but often goes to Bangalore. Tell me how you stand on public issues”, he asked.
He advised him “People elected you as an MLA, you should respect that decision.” He questioned whether Jagan worked honestly even for a single day when the YSRCP was in power.
