Jagan asks party to be ready for snap polls
June 1st, 2011 - 7:55 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, June 1 (IANS) YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Wednesday asked his party leaders and cadre to be ready for snap polls to Andhra Pradesh assembly.
Addressing a meeting of the central governing council of the party here, the Kadapa MP said the cadre should be ready for elections whenever they are held.
His call has assumed significance as it came a day after the party claimed that it had the requisite number to pull down the Congress-led government and dared the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to move a no-trust motion.
The TDP, on the other hand, has been challenging the son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to first prove his party’s strength before the governor.
The leaders of the main opposition party said they were ready to vote against the government if the governor calls a special session of the assembly.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has also stated that it would support a no-trust motion moved by any party.
The ruling Congress, which has 156 members in 294-member house, is confident of facing the no-trust motion with support from the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), which has 18 legislators and has announced its merger with the former. The government is also confident of support from Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which has seven legislators.
It was still not clear as to how many Congress legislators were with Jagan, as Jaganmohan Reddy is popularly known.
Soon after he quit the Congress in November last year, he claimed to have the support of as many as two dozen legislators but the number dwindled after the Congress won back some rebels and also warned others of disqualification.
The TDP has 88 legislators while the TRS tally stands at 11.
For the second day, Jagan held talks with members of his party’s governing council and his close aides. He told them that it was the right time to build the party from the grassroots levels.
The young leader, who floated the party in March, retained the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency last month with a record margin of over 500,000 votes while his mother Vijayalaxmi retained Pulivendula assembly constituency.
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