Fresh from the stupendous performance in the elections to Dubbak assembly seat and later in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in Telangana, the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have felt that it has potential to grow in Andhra Pradesh as well.
While the BJP has been capitalising on the failure of the Congress party in Telangana and able to fill the political vacuum, it is of the view that there is a political vacuum in AP as well due to weakening Telugu Desam Party.
So, the BJP state leaders, who had hitherto been going soft towards the ruling YSR Congress party in AP, have now started raising their pitch in the wake of forthcoming by-elections to Tirupati parliamentary seat.
On Wednesday, BJP state unit president Somu Veerraju lashed out at the YSRC and also the TDP for making a hue and cry over Polavaram project, while ignoring the Rayalaseema irrigation projects.
“The kind of interest they are showing on Polavaram is not there on completing Rayalaseema projects. If the BJP is voted to power in 2024, we shall take up all the Rayalaseema projects with central assistance,” Veerraju said.
State BJP vice-president P Vishnu Kumar Raju went a step ahead and targeted chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. He predicted that Jagan might not continue as the chief minister after completing two and a half years.
“Jagan said he would change the cabinet after two and a half years, but I feel Jagan himself might not be the CM by then. In his place, his wife Bharati may become the first woman chief minister of Andhra Pradesh,” he said.
He also compared Jagan with North Korean dictator president Kim Jong Un, who is never bothered about people’s problems.
“Like Kim, Jagan also doesn’t understand the problems of the people. At least if Bharati becomes the chief minister, there might be some justice to the people,” Vishnu said.
