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Jagan launches campaign for Kadapa by-polls

M.V. Subramanyam

It's a battle between the credibility of YSR and Sonia's betrayal, says the former MP

Protective mode:Jagan ducks as a security man raises electrical wires with a stick in Uppalapadu village in Kadapa district on Wednesday.

KADAPA: YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday described the by-elections to the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies on May 8 as a fight between “YSR's credibility and Sonia Gandhi's betrayal”.

Launching his month-long election campaign from Jammalamadugu Assembly segment under Kadapa constituency, he addressed his first meeting at Mylavaram after hoisting the YSR Congress Party flag.

Charge against Sonia

He claimed that the by-elections were a fight between YSR's affection and Sonia Gandhi's power and ego-centric politics. He accused Ms. Sonia Gandhi of engineering a split in YSR's family, trying to isolate him and harass his party supporters by foisting false cases. Yet, he was sporting a smile due to the love and affection of the people, he said.

Mr. Jagan said he chose Mylavaram as YSR had deputed him to this place after regaining power to gauge the plight of the distressed handloom weavers and suggest ways to bail them out from their distress.

He also campaigned in Mylavaram, Veparala and Dommaranandyal in Mylavaram mandal, J. Moragudi in Jammalamadugu mandal and Uppalapadu in Peddamudiyam mandal.

Weavers' plight

The former MP maintained that only two political leaders had empathised with the problems of handloom weavers. The first to strive for the welfare of handloom weavers was TDP founder N.T. Rama Rao when he launched the ‘Janatha dhoti and saree' scheme, though his successor N. Chandrababu Naidu shelved the scheme and left weavers in the lurch, and later it was YSR, he said.

Alleging a nexus between the Congress and TDP, he appealed to the people to vote for him and his mother, Y.S. Vijayamma, for restoration of “YSR's golden rule”, which, he said, was a rule of welfare of the poor. Mr Jagan said the people's vote would usher in political change in the State. Before beginning his campaign, he paid homage, along with family members, at the YSR Samadhi at Idupulapaya.

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