Jana Sena Party (JSP) president Pawan Kalyan has ruled out the chance of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) retaining power in the 2024 elections, and insisted that it has no right to seek the people’s mandate in the first place having pushed the State back by 25 years by taking a host of regressive policy decisions.
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For the JSP, people mattered more than anything else, unlike the YSRCP which stooped to low levels to fulfil its political agenda, he stated.
Addressing a party meeting at Mangalagiri in Guntur district on Tuesday night, Mr. Kalyan said the JSP suffered major setbacks since its formation, but it was never tired of fighting for the people’s welfare in spite of it having just one member in the Legislative Assembly, who became a YSRCP MLA for all practical purposes.
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The objective of JSP was to serve the masses, for which power was required, he said and reiterated that the anti-YSRCP votes should not be allowed to split in 2024, lest the State would land in far more serious problems. He questioned why cases were booked on JSP leaders who attended the party’s formation day event on March 14, if the YSRCP was not apprehensive that the JSP became a force to reckon with.
Mr. Kalyan further said the YSRCP government was steeped in huge debt and it was fleecing the people by increasing various taxes to wriggle out of the financial crisis.
Development took a backseat and Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was least bothered about issues like the proposed privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and it goes without saying that he (the CM) pushed the development of the capital city into limbo by mooting three capitals. People were not blind to how YSRCP destroyed the State, it would eventually pay the price for its follies, the JSP chief added.