Vijayalakshmi to hold reins

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For the first time, YSR Congress honorary president Y.S. Vijayalakshmi came to the party office on Friday and presided over a meeting of the party’s extended state council.

At the meeting, it was decided to authorise party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to decide the party’s stand in the Presidential polls.

Ms Vijayalakshmi called upon the party cadre to be prepared to face local body elections in the state. She said she would be holding the reins till Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy returned.

At the meeting it was resolved to highlight the “failure of the state government to solve farmers’ problems; the growing attacks on dalits and dilution of welfare schemes introduced by YSR and emanded a judicial inqu-iry into the conduct of the CBI which alleged was working in collusion with Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s political and business rivals.

The meeting adopted resolutions condemning the attitude of the state government towards the welfare of weavers, minorities, fishermen, tribals and the poor power supply to farmers.

The party decided to celebrate YSR’s birth anniversary on July 8, which will be observed by the cadres to highlight the problems of farmers. The party dem-anded a judicial inquiry into the former CM’s death in a helicopter crash.

The party took a serious note of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy’s arrest and accused the ruling Congress, main opposition Telugu Desam, the CBI and his business adversaries of joining hands against him. The YSRC demanded an inqu-iry by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the arrest.

Ms Vijayalakshmi informed the attendees about her two-day Delhi visit and the assurances given by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and other leaders about the course of the CBI investigation against Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, and on farmers' issues in the wake of the hike in fertiliser prices and the need for increasing input subsidy.