YSRC rules out truck with TRS

Hyderabad: The YSRC will not have a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha or the AP elections. Shaking hands with the TRS was only for the Federal Front and was not about an alliance, a senior party leader said.

“The Federal Front is an understanding of parties with the same ideology. When they can be a UPA and NDA, why not a Federal Front? There is a need for a non-BJP, non-Cong-ress front,” he said.

The YSRC has no tie-up with any party ahead of the elections but there may be one after the results are declared, he said. “The party will definitely not tieup with the BJP or the Congress given that both have betrayed the state by not allocating special status under the AP Reorganisation Act,” he said.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had asked Mr Reddy to join hands for the Federal Front at the national level.  “However, it is in the preliminary stage. The issue may turn crucial after the elections,” the leader said.

Asked why the party had initiated talks with the TRS, which it had opposed during the statehood agitation, a leader said that it was because the TRS MPs had repeatedly advocated for special status for AP in Parliament.

“Even K. Kavitha has raised the issue several times in the Lok Sabha and K. Kesava Rao in the Rajya Sabha,” he said.

“The Congress and the BJP have betrayed us. Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised at Tirupati he would accord special status but now the people feel cheated,” he said.