Yatra Not Intended at Getting CM’s Rank: Jagan

Already critical of Congress leadership for opposing his yatra, parliamentarian YS Jaganmohan Reddy has now slammed Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah for latter’s remarks about his eyeing the chief minister’s post, said media reports.

“Rosaiah reportedly said that I am in a hurry to become the chief minister, I am asking you, am I here to console or to ask for chief minister’s post? I have come here to console. I do not understand why there is worry about the chief minister’s post. I think we should be ashamed of this politics,” Jagan was quoted as saying.

Opposed to Jagan’s yatra, Rosaiah had told a TC channel that ‘he (Jagan) is a young boy with a lot of future. He needs proper advice. He can dream, aspire and try for the CM’s post but there is a method to try and get it.”

“It is not a post to be captured by doing something. Jaganmohan Reddy could have waited for some time and staked his claim,” he had said.

Rounding off his four-day yatra to the district, Jagan said at Ranasthalam on Sunday, “…When I started the yatra I thought local MLAs would also come with me. I do not understand why consoling is also politicised. Though the MLAs and MPs are not with me their hearts are here. They are sending their family members with me.”

(Based on internet reports)