YSRCP dismisses reports of merger with Congress

Strictly ruling out its merger with any other party at any point of time, the Ysr Congress party on Saturday challenged the opposition Telugu Desam Party to introduce a No Confidence Motion in the assembly against the government.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, party leaders and spokespersons Bajireddy Goverdhan, Vasireddy Padma and HA Rahman rejected the reports that appeared in a section of media that the Ysr Congress would merge with the Congress party.  Finding fault with the an agency report on Friday that claimed that Ysr Congress honorary president YS Vijayamma has not ruled out the party’s merger with the Congress, Bajireddy and Padma said coverts are also working in the media on behalf of some political parties. Some political parties are also involved in the conspiracy, they observed.

Calling the report as unfortunate, the leaders took umbrage to the delayed telecast of the party’s rejoinder and condemnation of the falsified report in some channels. “We don’t understand why some channels took more than half an hour to telecast the denial of PTI report by Vijayamma,” they said. They asked the media to report without any sort of bias.

Reiterating the party’s view that the TDP has been in collusion with the Congress, the three leaders have asked the TDP to introduce a No Confidence Motion against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government to know who is colluding with whom. “Let TDP introduce a no confidence motion on Sept 17 when the assembly session begins and you will know what we will do,” they said.

Govardhan charged the TDP with unleashing a mudslinging campaign against the YSRCP. “During the recent by elections, TDP had made false propaganda that our party would support BJP and now it has spread rumors that we will merge with Congress,” they said. Charging TDP with hobnobbing with the Congress, the Ysr Congress leaders said Chandrababu Naidu went to Delhi to conspire against Jagan Mohan Reddy who was jailed for no fault of his. “Naidu met four congress MPs in Delhi and conspired with them to downsize the growing popularity of Jagan,” they charged.

Padma backing the charge against the TDP by adding that Naidu in the past used to show ‘V’ symbol with his fingers for victory but now he has recently started showing the hand symbol to indicate he has colluded with the Congress. She also charged the Congress leaders with trying to confuse the people by praising YSR in Delhi and simultaneously unleashing a false campaign in Hyderabad through media on Friday. “It is all to send a false message to people that YSRCP is moving closer to the Congress,” Padma charged.

Rahman asked the Congress leaders and Government as to why they didn’t till now try to install YSR statue in the AP Bhavan in Delhi when they are heaping so much praise on the late chief minister YSR.