Indicating his party’s resolve to come out openly on the issue of Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh, Leader of Opposition YS Jaganmohan Reddy said today that he will leader his party’s candle light rally in Visakhapatnam tomorrow on this demand. Castigating Chandrababu Naidu for his stand of pulling out from the demand of SCS on the irrational ground that all aspects are covered under the special package, he asserted that “SCS is our Right”.

The YSRCP Chief also announced that his party will rise the issue in the Budget session of Parliament and after Monsoon session all his MPs will resign and seek a mandate on the SCS plank. If TDP is sincere on the issue, he challenged that all its MPs also should quit to make the country know about the importance of the SCS.

“We have been in the forefront of leading the fight for SCS and we take strong objection to Chandrababu Naidu’s remarks that there is no need for SCS as all the issues are covered under the special package. The Chief Minister has been using repressive methods to foil the Candle Light Rally which is our democratic right but it will go on and I will lead the rally at Visakhapatnam,” he added.

The YSRSCP Chief advised that the Chief Minister should emulate the neighbouring Tamil Nadu where the Chief Minister had led an all-party delegation and forced the Centre to fall in line on the Jallikatuu issue. Chandrababu Naidu should also follow suit and mount pressure on Modi Government on the SCS issue and give an ultimatum that he will pull out from the NDA coalition.

Instead of such positive approach, he deplored that Chandrababu Naidu has been toeing a negative line to save his skin in wake of the various scams he is involved in and has mortgaged SCS for his personal gains. He recalled that they have organised 32 agitation programmes till now on SCS and will continue to do so.