Can TDP, JSP dare contest all 175 seats?

With the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh just a year away, the YSR Congress party has stepped up its aggressive attack on the opposition, especially in the wake of the reports that the main opposition Telugu Desam Party and the Jana Sena Party might join hands to fight the elections together.

YSRCP president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is making an attempt to convince the people that he was facing the battle alone like a lion, while the opposition parties are conspiring together like wolves to attack him.

On Monday, Jagan challenged the opposition TDP led by N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party led by power star Pawan Kalyan to contest all the 175 assembly elections in the state independently, if they have guts.

While the YSRCP has set the target of winning all the 175 assembly seats in the state, banking on the slew of welfare schemes introduced by the state government, the TDP and Jana Sena Party had lacked confidence of even contesting all the seats.

Stating that people are the backbone of the YSRCP, Jagan said his government had implemented 98.5 per cent of its pre-election promises and expressed confidence that the slew of welfare schemes being implemented by his government would help the party win all the 175 seats.

He challenged whether the TDP, or for that matter Jana Sena Party (headed by actor Pawan Kalyan) had the guts to contest all the 175 assembly seats.

“They have no face to ask votes from the people. They are only envious of the credibility and political goodwill of the YSRCP. They are suffering from heartburn for which there is no medicine,” he said.

The chief minister asked the people to analyse the qualitative difference between the TDP rule which had pursued a policy of plunder, stash and devour with the support of friendly media and foster son Pawan Kalyan and the present government which has been implementing plethora of welfare and developmental programmes for the economic prosperity of the people.

“The state is witnessing a class war between the poor backed by our government and the capitalists backed by the opposition,” he said and asked the people not to get carried away by the misleading and false propaganda of the unethical TDP- Jana Sena combine.