Dec. 11: A day after his alleged business associate, minister for tourism in the BJP-led government in Karnataka, Gali Janardhan Reddy. indicating a possible alliance of former Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s new political party with the BJP in Andhra Pradesh, sources in Y.S. Jagan’s camp maintained that the new party would not have a tie-up with any party or group of parties.
Jagan camp sources said that statements made by Janardhan Reddy in this connection, while addressing a BJP workers meet in Hospet, have disturbed YS Jagan's camp. Some of the pro-Jagan websites in Telugu and English flashed the news, disagreeing with the statement of Gali Janardhan Reddy, and stated that Y.S. Jagan's party getting linked up with NDA is ruled out.
After quitting Congress party, citing humiliation to his family and the legacy of his father, late Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy, on December 7, Jagan announced in his home tome Pulivendula, that his new party will wipe out Congress from Andhra
Pradesh over next three years, declaring that AP assembly elections scheduled to be held in 2014 will be the final test for his new party. Obviously, there are reasons for Jagan camp to condemn `NDA-alliance' talks by Janardhan Reddy, at this juncture.
Any indication of either joining with BJP, or joining the BJP-led NDA before the elections, is sure to hit secular credentials of Jagan's new party, which is banking heavily on Christians, Muslims, farmers, youth and the labour class.
Some of the senior national leaders of BJP have reportedly contacted Y.S. Jagan and offered support to him, and as a goodwill gesture, sources said, BJP is not likely to field candidates in Kadappa Lok Sabha, and Pulivendula assembly seats, vacated by Jagan and his mother Jayamma respectively.