Opposition YSR Congress Party has attempted something that it hadn’t done before – party plenary. While this seems to have brought certain seriousness to YSRCP as a political party, what’s clearly lacking is substance. Going by the speeches of its crucial leaders, the sole purpose of plenary is to demean CM Chandrababu Naidu and his government. And YSRCP need not have a reason to take on government. It blindly blamed Naidu for everything – good or bad – in his government. Quite literally. Too much play of words, phrases, trying to please galleries, but little did Jagan or his leaders realise that it would all backfire and comeback to them. Going by its plenary, Power is the sole aim of the party. And the only approach it found is to defame Chandrababu.

Plenary is to discuss the functioning of party, its achievements for public, its movements and issue-based, objective criticism of government. But what YSRCP plenary offered was total opposite. So, what is plenary for? To curse Naidu. Its evident when its party senior leader Ummareddy Venkateswarlu caught red-handed on camera while he was passing Jagan’s orders to Roja to ‘abuse’ Naidu. This was quite open and left Jagan red-faced. Right from Sharmila to Jagan to all its leaders, everyone took a dig at Naidu.

If it’s not enough,Jagan Reddy has released a book on Chandrababu Naidu’s corruption where he alleged that Naidu is involved in a whopping 3.75 Lakh Crore of corruption and Jagan didn’t stop there. He went onto dub Chandrababu as the ‘Emperor of Corruption’. These are evoking laughs as the money that Jagan quoted was far far higher than the total of state’s budget in the three years of TDP rule.

These are just a drop in an ocean. Kodali Nani, Roja, Radha and many leaders of YCP just stuck to personal comments limiting the whole plenary to Jagan’s personal rivalry with Naidu. The whole purpose of plenary seem to be about power, politics, party and Prashant Kishore. It apparently least bothered about people and policies. Looks like, it all helped Jagan to satisfy his ego while his leaders belittling Naidu, TDP. The moot question is whether the plenary has any impact on the image of YSRCP in people or not.

YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy has declared that he has a lot of faith in the abilities of political strategist Prashant Kishor and expressed confidence that the latter would help the party come to power in 2019.

Jagan introduced Prashant at the party plenary meeting being held in Guntur on Sunday.

Speaking in this regard, YS Jagan said that Prashant Kishore would lend his support to YSRCP to sweep away Chandrababu Naidu and TDP’s rule from the state and win the 2019 elections.

Mentioning that Prashant had backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2014 elections, Nitish Kumar’s victory and even in Punjab with Captain Amarender, the YSRCP Chief said that now his party will be garnering the support from the political strategist for the 2019 elections and take directions with his expertise.

While it was Y S Jaganmohan Reddy all the way at the two-day plenary of the YSR Congress party that concluded in Amaravati on Sunday, the highlight of the session was his sister Y S Sharmila, who showed up at the party meeting along with her mother Vijayalakshmi after a long time.

Sharmila, who took the mantle of the party when Jagan was in jail between 2012 and 2013, evoked thunderous applause from the party cadre when she addressed the plenary.

Introducing herself as the daughter of Rajanna and sister of Jaganana, YS Sharmila in her speech said that YS Rajasekhar Reddy proved himself as farmers’ favourite by introducing schemes including waiver of loans, waiver of power dues, free power supply and focusing on Irrigation projects.

She further said that during YSR rule, poor people were given free houses, patients were given life through Arogya Sri and 108 while also introducing fees reimbursement scheme.

Mentioning that Jagan was following the footsteps of YSR theoretically, Sharmila said that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu cheated students, farmers and DWARKA women with his false promises.

Speaking at the YSRCP Plenary meeting being held in Amaravati on Sunday, Sharmila said that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu cheated the people of AP during the elections in 2014 but now the public is aware of his falsehood and he cannot come to power again in the 2019 elections.

Citing a Telugu proverb, Sharmila said Chandrababu can’t cook the dal except the one and only dal – Pappu in Telugu while calling Nara Lokesh as ‘Pappu’.

She concluded her speech by saying that the strength of YSRCP is the faith people have on Jagan and that the future of Andhra Pradesh is YSRCP.

TDP MP from Andhra Pradesh JC Diwakar Reddy had faced bitter experience in Hyderabad airport. He was denied to board a flight owned by True Jet Airways at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

He came to airport to fly off to Vijayawada and approached the Airways authorities to buy a ticket but the officials turned down the MP request.

As there is no option, the TDP leader left the airport without any argument. Reddy has been barred from flying the flights of Air India, Spice Jet, Indigo and Jet Airways for attacking the office of Indigo airlines in Visakhapatnam airport recently.