Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee President G Rudra Raju addressing the media in Ongole on Thursday. , Photo Credit: Kommuri Srinivas
Buoyed by the “overwhelming response” to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo visit, according to Pradesh Congress Committee president Gidugu, the party has decided to contest the 2024 elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assembly in Andhra Pradesh. Rudra Raju.
Addressing the media here on Thursday, Mr. Rudra Raju said that the party would seek people’s mandate by promising Special Category Status (SCS) to the state.
The PCC chief insisted, “The first file to be signed by the Congress government at the Center will be related to the SCS.”
He stressed the need to extend the law making provision for the SC/ST sub-plan for another 10 years.
Calling upon the people to reject the three regional parties – Telugu Desam Party (TDP), YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and Jana Sena Party (JSP), he said any vote for these organizations would indirectly mean Indian public Have to strengthen the hands of Party (BJP), whose “communal agenda” these parties have always supported and compromised on the interests of the state on various issues including the SCS.
Abbreviation for BJP
Mr. Rudra Raju coined an acronym for BJP as “Babu (TDP chief), Jagan (Chief Minister), and Pawan (JSP chief) party”.
People were upset with the “anti-people” Narendra Modi government at the Center and the “autocratic” YSRCP government in the state as they had made the lives of common people miserable by imposing heavy doses of taxes and rampant inflation, he said. That they want Congress to return to power for a better future.
He alleged that now atrocities on Dalits, minorities and women are increasing.
He said that as a follow-up to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the party men would undertake padyatras in all assembly constituencies for two months from January 26 to gain people’s confidence.
‘Understand YSR’s vision’
All India Congress Committee (AICC) Secretary in-charge of Andhra Pradesh CD Meiyappan said that former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s legacy belonged to the Congress party and his fans should reflect on the late leader’s vision of seeing Shri Rahul Gandhi as a leader. To make it come true, you have to work. Prime Minister.
YSRCP workers led by Dalit leader Vijayendra Bhaujan, who had championed the cause of Dalits during the Karamchedu massacre incident, joined the Congress in the presence of former Union minister Chinta Mohan and PCC vice-president Sripati Prakasam.