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BJP not inclined to YSRC: Manikyala
After the exit of Telugu Desam Party from the NDA, will the BJP beckon the YSRC into the alliance? According to Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, who left the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet after the latter pulled out of NDA government, the BJP state unit is not inclined for any truck with the YSRC.
Amaravati: After the exit of Telugu Desam Party from the NDA, will the BJP beckon the YSRC into the alliance? According to Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, who left the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet after the latter pulled out of NDA government, the BJP state unit is not inclined for any truck with the YSRC.
"We are not very much interested in having alliance with the YSRC. We will convey this to our national leadership. If it still wants to take the YSRC on board, there is nothing we can do about it other than supporting the decision," he told The Hans India in an interview on Monday.
He said it was a theory that is being fueled by the TDP so that both the YSRC and BJP would not come together. Anyway, we are not overly interested in the YSRC, he said.
Manikyala Rao said that BJP had nothing to do with the exit of the TDP. "If the TDP wanted to leave, we cannot stop it. We have never asked the TDP or for that matter any party in the NDA to leave," he said adding that if the TDP decides to leave the NDA, it would be at its volition. The BJP never asks any of its constituents to leave, he said.
Even if the TDP remains in the NDA, the BJP has decided to contest all the 175 Assembly seats in the state in the next election. He says there is a precedent in Maharashtra where the BJP and Shiv Sena, who are in alliance contested all the seats in the state.
He said his party has already completed appointing Booth Level Committees in more than 50 per cent of the Assembly segments. Groundwork is being taken up to give tough fight to TDP and YSRCP. He further added that they have still one-year time to prepare for the general elections in the state.
“We hope, the environment will change, and the public will tilt towards BJP after establishing truth,” he observed. Manikyala Rao further took exception to Chandrababu Naidu blaming the Centre for not according special category status.
His blaming the BJP so that he could be in the clear, he said. On Kia Motors unit in AP, he stated that it was because of Narendra Modi’s Memorandum of Understanding with that company. “Chandrababu Naidu is taking undue credit fo Kia Motors. That credit must go to Modi,” he added.
By Madamanchi Sambasiva Rao
