Chiru's first negative talk on YSR govt

Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi, for the first time, made a negative comment against Y S Rajasekhara Reddy government on Monday.

He was reacting to the Governor’s address to the joint session of Assembly and Legislative Council, Chiranjeevi. But the reaction was not as aggressive as that of other opposition leaders, including that of Lok Satta president Jayaprakash Narayan. It was in fact mild andpolished.

Chiranjeevi said the Governor’s address was beautifully packaged, but it lacked reference to important issues of public concern. The Governor had only harped on the achievements in the last four years, but it had failed to spell out what the government would do to solve the basic needs of the people in the coming days, he said.

YSR begins to show his skills

The TDP MLA’s open letter created ripples in the party circles. According to party leaders close to Naidu, this could be the first attempt by Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to create a rift in the TDP, thereby engineering a split in the party in the coming days.

Senior leader P Ashok Gajapathi Raju reacted strongly to Prasanna Kumar’s letter, demanding that the MLA should reveal the names of “buffoons and riff-raff gang members,” he said.

Incidentally, Prasanna Kumar Reddy is the son of late Nallapureddy Srinivasulu Reddy, one of the founder-members of the TDP along with NTR. He later differed with NTR and defected to the Congress.