AP Congress president Y S Sharmila on Wednesday said that the alliance between the ruling YSR Congress and the BJP is invisible. She said that the YSR Congress has strong bondage with the BJP leadership in Delhi.
She was addressing the party workers at Visakhapatnam on the day when she made a scathing attack on the ruling YSR Congress. She said that Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is in alliance with the BJP leaders. The alliance cannot be seen outside, she said and added that the strong bondage between Jagan Mohan Reddy and the BJP leaders has been there for years.
Sharmila questioned Jagan Mohan Reddy for not bringing special category status to the state. She said that Jagan Mohan Reddy had fought for the Special Category Status when he was in the opposition. She also recalled that Jagan Mohan Reddy had asked people to give him 25 MPs and he would get the special category status. However, he did not even open his mouth in the last five years about special category status, she said.
She also blamed the chief minister for not getting the railway zone for Visakhapatnam. She wondered why the chief minister was silent despite the Centre not giving the railway zone to Visakhapatnam. She wanted to know why the chief minister is also silent when the Centre is not bringing the railway zone to the state despite promising it.
She blamed the chief minister for remaining silent when the Central government was getting ready to privatize the steel plant in Visakhapatnam. She questioned the chief minister for his silence on the steel plant issue despite the employees’ holding protests.
She also blamed the chief minister and the state government for giving its share in the Gangavaram port to the private company. She alleged that the chief minister had tied up with the BJP government at the Centre and is closing his eyes for everything that the BJP leaders are doing.
Sharmila made an appeal to the people to defeat the YSR Congress government in the state and bring the Congress government if they wanted the steel plant to be protected, railway zone to be a reality and special category status to come.
