Senior Congress leader and former union minister Dr Chinta Mohan, who has been advocating unity of Congress and YSR Congress , has gone a step further in his campaign today. But, he took a different theme than the one he proposed a couple of days ago at Nellore.
While he said earlier it was the time Congress and Jagan came together, today he announced there was a need to forge an alternative political forum in Andhra Pradesh with the help of leaders like YS Jaganmohan Reddy and Jana Sena president Pawan Kalyan. He said he was planning to meet them.
Interestingly, today Tirupati has become a venue for the announcement of two future political programs. The occasion was the same for the two announcements, Samatha Diwas, which is observed on the birth anniversary of Babu Jagjiva Ram. In the program organized by BJP, party MLC Somu Virraju spoke opposing TDP policies, while Congress leader Chinta Mohan laid stress on the need to put an end to TDP-BJP misrule. Both are indicative of growing political dissonance in their parties.
Addressing people gathered to pay tributes to Babu Jagjivan Rao at local Ambedkar Bhavan, he said Andhra Pradesh was in bad need of a political alternative. He said he was planning to tour entire state meeting all forces, which are against the TDP and BJP to forge a political alliance.
He called upon YSRC president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Jana Sena president Pawan Kalyan to think of a political alternative to TDP-BJP misrule.
He was hopeful that he would succeed in cobbling up the alternative force in the state by the end of 2017. He said he would meet all anti-TDP and anti-BJP forces , including the Left parties, in order to forge the alliance against the ruling coalition. ” People can’t be left to the whims and fancies of BJP and TDP. We have to put an end to this as early as possible. And I will strive to achieve this,” Dr Mohan said.
He, however, made it clear, all this activity would be within the frame work Congress ideology. ” I don’t want to leave the party. I will continue to remain in the party and work towards building political alternative to the NDA,” he said.