There is no place for Jagan Mohan Reddy in the Congress, notwithstanding the take of Union Minister of State for Railways K Surya Prakash Reddy who said the Kadapa MP would get bail only if he returned to the party fold.
Firmly distancing the party from the comment, PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana said the Congress did not need Jagan. “The Union Minister may have made the comments in his personal capacity,” Botcha claimed, adding, “There is no question of the party admitting Jagan who is facing serious charges of corruption.”
The PCC chief said if there were serious charges of corruption against the late YSR, it was the responsibility of his family to prove his innocence. “If the courts find him guilty, it is shame on the Congress too since he was a Congress chief minister. We will have to hang our heads in shame,” he said, but refused to say whether the Congress should reclaim or disown the legacy of Y Rajasekhara Reddy.
The PCC president, who campaigned for Congress in Karnataka, said there was something in common between the BSR Congress and the YSR Congress.
“The BSR Congress too won by-elections in Karnataka with an unbelievable majority just like the YSR Cong did in AP. But the BSR Cong is in a rundown state. The same would be the fate of the YSR Congress,” he said, adding that emotive issues help a party gain electorally, but not in the long run.
He said after 2014, YSR Cong would disappear the way the BSR Cong was vanishing. There would be no Jagan and no Sharmila. after the elections.
