Even as the second day of the budget session of the Andhra Pradesh state assembly is going on, the YSR Congress party MLAs and MLCs, led by party president and former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy left for New Delhi to take part in the dharna on Wednesday in protest against attacks on and killings of party leaders.
Jagan has given a call to the leaders of all the political parties to join the protest dharna on Wednesday to highlight the alleged law and order breakdown in Andhra Pradesh and demand for imposition of President’s Rule in the state.
Simultaneously, Jagan said the party MPs will raise their voices in both houses of Parliament, discussing the murders, attacks, and property destruction happening in the state following the protest in national capital and added that the aim is to bring national attention to these atrocities.
But political observers wonder which party is going to join the dharna to be organised by Jagan and his team in Delhi, as he has never been friendly with any other party across the country and he has not been part of any coalition – whether it was NDA or the INDIA bloc.
The Congress leaders will definitely not take part in the dharna against Andhra Pradesh, as his own sister Y S Sharmila who is heading the party in the state and she took a categorical stand that the Vinukonda murder had nothing to do with politics and it was purely due to personal rivalries.
The other alliance partners in the INDIA bloc – including Trinamul Congress or Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)-Sharad Pawar group or Samajwadi Party – do not share good equations with the YSRCP.
Maybe, a few DMK leaders might extend solidarity with Jagan in their individual capacity, but even that is not certain.
“If at all anybody would join the Jagan dharna, it will be the MPs of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao,” an analyst said.
