The Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) headed by political strategist Rishi Raj Singh, which has been hired again by YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy despite failing to secure victory for the party in the last assembly elections, is said to be misleading him again.
According to sources in the party, a 12-member I-PAC team, hired by Jagan for a fee of Rs 2 crore per month, is operating from Vijayawada and its key leaders are regularly visiting the party central office at Tadepalli, but nobody knows what these team members are doing.
The party leaders are given the impression that the I-PAC team is essentially meant for developing the campaign strategies for the party over the next four years, besides providing independent feedback from the ground about the people’s pulse on the performance of the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government.
“There are no indications of how the I-PAC team members are collecting information from the people about the functioning of the Chandrababu Naidu government. But they are following the same old technique of appeasing the YSRCP president by presenting him fake reports,” a party leader said.
Apparently, the I-PAC team is misleading Jagan by telling him that the people are already disgusted with Chandrababu Naidu, as he has failed to implement the pre-election welfare schemes; and that the alliance leaders are indulging in massive corruption.
“They have told Jagan that the people have lost faith in the Naidu government within seven months and it is time the YSRCP capitalises on the same and build up the anti-incumbency in the state. Obviously, Jagan believes them and hence, he has announced programme of action to go into the people,” the party leader said.
What the I-PAC team has not realised is that there are no immediate elections in the state and the YSRCP will have to wait for another four-and-half years to face the elections.
“There is no point in the YSRCP exhausting all its weapons in a hurried manner. If the people are unhappy with the Naidu government, they will definitely defeat the coalition in the next elections. The I-PAC better concentrate on rebuilding the YSRCP in the next four years so that it would be a strong opponent by next elections,” the party leader observed.
