JULY 2019 l PARlIAMENTARIAN 53In many ways, the political candour
of Reddy is the sign of the new
generation. They do not believe in
futile circumlocutions. Reddy is
resigned to the fact that he has to deal
with the Modi government at the
centre in a different way.
tough tasks
The victory in Andhra Pradesh is
challenging in itself. Leader of the
YSRC Parliamentary Party (YSRCPP)
Vijay Sai Reddy in an informal chat
with Parliamentarian said that in 2014
when the new state of Andhra Pradesh
began its inning, the public debt was
Rs 97,000 crore. At the end of
Chandrababu Naidu’s first term, it rose
to Rs 2.25 lakh crore. The state does
not have resources of its own and it
needs assistance from the Central
Government.
It will be tough for Chief Minister
Reddy to attract private investment to
the state as it was for his predecessor
Chandrababu Naidu. The party is
confident that their leader will
persuade many of the Information
Technology (IT) multinationals to set
jaganmohan reddy
had prayed To god
ThaT he should win
in The assemBly and
ThaT The Bjp should
noT geT an aBsoluTe
majoriTy so ThaT
The naTional parTy
would have had To
depend on regional
parTies