Although the flags are different, the agenda of TDP, BJP and Jana Sena is only to throw out the repressive YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s regime from the state and put the state into development track, asserted BJP state president and former union minister Daggubati Purandeswari.
Visiting Rajamahendravaram first time on Friday, after the party announced her as party’s Lok Sabha candidate from this city, she was accorded a grand welcome by the party cadre and also people. On this occasion, she called upon the people to put an end to the ‘destructive rule’ in the state.
She expressed concern that there is a pathetic situation in the state that even the state Secretariat has been mortgaged. Stating that this is the time to bring qualitative change in the state, she asked everyone to work so that the BJP flag flies in all the constituencies it is contesting.
She met key party leaders and workers. AP election co-in-charge Siddharth Nath Singh also accompanied her. She said that BJP has candidates for 175 Assembly seats and 25 parliament seats, but recognising the need for an alliance, the party has limited itself to 10 Assembly and 6 parliament seats.
Noting that many aspirants in the party are disappointed, she said that national leadership has taken this decision with a view to develop the state. She urged BJP workers to work hard for the victory of TDP and Jana Sena candidates also.
Describing the BJP-TDP-JSP alliance a historical necessity, she said it must come to power. “The poor in Andhra Pradesh are being cheated. The government has increased electricity charges eight times in the last five years. The state has withdrawn 27 schemes introduced by the Centre for the welfare of SCs. BC Commission has not been given legal status in the state,” she said. She demanded a white paper on the investments received by the state during the last five years.
Siddharth Nath Singh said that all problems will be solved if the double-engine government comes to power in AP. He asserted that completion of the Polavaram project is possible only with a double-engine government.
Siddarth Nath Singh criticised Jagan’s government as synonymous with corruption. He said while Centre sanctioned 22.5 lakh houses, the state government has not completed even three lakh houses. If the sand, liquor and land mafias are to go, a double-engine government should be elected, he added.
