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YSRCP flags off bus yatras to consolidate SC, BC, and ST votes in Andhra Pradesh

With its leader in jail, the opposition TDP is in no position to match the YSRCP's high-voltage campaign.

Published Oct 26, 2023 | 8:34 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 26, 2023 | 9:46 PM

YSRCP workers at the beginning of the Samajika Sadhikara yatra at Tenali. (X)

In what appeared like a warm-up exercise for the elections next year in Andhra Pradesh, the YSRCP on Thursday, 26 October, kicked off its Samajika Sadhikara bus yatras across the state.

The interesting feature of the programme is that three bus yatras would visit as many Assembly segments simultaneously — one each in North Andhra, coastal Andhra, and Rayalaseema. Each yatra would visit one constituency a day, except on Sundays.

Public meetings chaired by the local MLA, or the Assembly segment in-charge, would be held every evening of the yatra to explain the government’s initiatives, and plans for the future.

On the first day, the yatras began from Itchapuram, Tenali, and Singanamala in the three regions.

Several ruling-party enthusiasts took out motorcycle rallies in support of the YSRCP as the yatra was flagged off. The yatras are expected to conclude on 31 December.

“The kind of importance and priority given to those from the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Backward Classes (BCs) in the state has no parallel anywhere in the entire country,” Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said at the commencement of the yatras.

నాలుగున్నరేళ్ల సీఎం @ysjagan పాలనలో ప్రజలకు జరిగిన మేలును వివరించేందుకు @YSRCParty చేప‌ట్టిన సామాజిక సాధికార బ‌స్సు యాత్ర‌కు తొలిరోజు ప్ర‌జ‌ల నుంచి విశేష స్పంద‌న ల‌భించింది. రాష్ట్రంలోని మూడు ప్రాంతాల్లో ప్రారంభమైన బస్సు యాత్ర‌కు ఊరూరా ప్ర‌జ‌లు బ్ర‌హ్మ‌ర‌థం ప‌ట్టారు. ఇవాళ్టి… pic.twitter.com/HyBt66L7yR

— YSR Congress Party (@YSRCParty) October 26, 2023

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TDP in disarray

“Development is a right conferred on the people here. In a matter of 53 months, the state had transferred ₹2.38 lakh crore to the bank accounts of 75 percent of these sections. We have ensured, with legal backing that 50 percent of the nominated posts would go to these sections. Though the feudal elements tried to obstruct us, we did not digress from our path. The bus yatra will pave the way for the victory of the poor in the war against the feudal forces,” he said on X.

The YSRCP has been organising back-to-back programmes to sustain the tempo of the campaign.

The chief minister is keen on taking full advantage of the TDP being in a state of disarray following the arrest of its president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the ₹371-crore skill development scam.

Though Naidu’s wife Bhuvaneswari is on her Nijam Gelavali yatra to lend moral support to her husband, it cannot match the high-voltage campaign being taken out by the YSRCP.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh is busy talking to the lawyers to get his father out of jail on bail and has little time to take up any party programmes to match the YSRCP.

As the CID is gunning for him too, he is on the defensive though he is trying to organise programmes with the help of TDP’s poll ally Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan.