Jagan offering tickets to candidates not ready to contest, says Naidu

Madugula (Anakapalle dist): TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is not 'Siddham' (ready) for the upcoming Assembly elections as he knows defeat is inevitable for YSRCP.

Addressing a massive public meeting at Madugula in Anakapalle district as part of 'Raa Kadali Raa' programme, he said that though Jagan is offering party tickets to the leaders for the Assembly elections, the candidates are not ready to be in the race.

With a note of sarcasm, the TDP supremo asked Jagan as to why he has not pressed the button for the job calendar, imposing total prohibition and on the revocation of Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS).

"I am sure that Jagan will certainly go home with the button to be pressed by the voters," Naidu remarked.

Expressing deep concern that Visakhapatnam, which was once known as the financial capital of Andhra Pradesh, has now turned into the capital for crime, the former Chief Minister said that though Jagan wants to go to Visakhapatnam, where the locals are not ready to welcome him.

"In fact the locals are asking him not to come there at all," he added.

Naidu expressed surprise as to why hundreds of crores of public money is being paid to the advisors and asked the Chief Minister to spell out even a single advice given by them except swallowing public money.

The former Chief Minister said that the TDP-Jana Sena combine has already won the polls in the public domain and expressed confidence that the alliance will certainly emerge victorious and form the government after the polls.