CPI national secretary K Narayana favoured grand alliance in Andhra Pradesh for the 2024 general election. He emphasised the need for the unity of TDP, Jana Sena and the Left Parties to defeat the YSR Congress.

Speaking to media persons in Vijayawada, the CPI leader regretted that Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan became silent after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Visakhapatnam on November 11. He recalled the statements of Pawan Kalyan for unity of the opposition parties in the state before the meeting with Modi.

However, after meeting with the Prime Minister, the Jana Sena chief is silent on the opposition unity, he said. He wondered why Pawan Kalyan is not talking about unity of opposition parties and his pledge to keep the anti-government vote undivided.

He alleged that the BJP and the YSR Congress were working together. While the BJP was protecting the interests of the YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, the YSR Congress was protecting the interests of the BJP in Delhi, he said.

He emphasised the need to defeat both the BJP at the Centre and the YSR Congress in the state in the next elections. He said that the BJP was destroying the nation, while the YSR Congress was destroying the state.

The CPI leader wanted TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan to think of grand alliance for the next elections to defeat the YSR Congress.

The CPI and the CPI-M had alliance with the Jana Sena and the BSP in the 2019 general election and all of them have lost deposits. It was only Jana Sena that had won one MLA from Razole in the Godavari districts.

It is now to be seen if Pawan Kalyan would forge the grand alliance as suggested by Narayana or would go with the BJP as being discussed among the political circles.

Rumours have come up several times in the past that the YCP MPs were lobbying hard in Delhi for removal of the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh. Now, CPI National Secretary K. Narayana says that it was true the Jagan Reddy regime in AP was making all out efforts to get Justice Maheswari moved out of the State. This is also part of the quid pro quo deals being made between the BJP and the YCP at the national level.

The CPI leader says that whatever be their political priorities in the state level, the YCP and the BJP were hand in glove in the Delhi scene. The YCP MPs had given unconditional and total support to the farmers and electricity bills brought by the Modi Government in the Parliament. This was why the Central Government was considering the requests of the Jagan Reddy Government to a large extent.

Mr. Narayana said that a top level lobbying was going on in Delhi to remove the AP Chief Justice. This was just because the AP High Court was just carrying out its constitutional duties to dismiss or stay the unconstitutional decisions of CM Jagan Reddy. The courts were bound by the Constitution. The AP CM even targeted State Election Commissioner and removed him. Even the President has no powers to remove the SEC but Jagan Reddy did that without respect to the Rule of Law.