Dadi Veerabhadhra Rao slams Jagan, walks out of YSRC

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, June 11, 2014: Even as YSRC chief,  YS Jaganmohan Reddy, was reviewing the party performance and its drubbing in the just concluded general elections in the city, senior politician, Dadi Veerabhadra resigned from the party, here on Wednesday.

Stating that he had committed a big blunder by joining YSRC, Dadi Veerabhadhra Rao said to rectify it he had decided to  quit the party. He came down heavily on Jagan, saying, YSRC doesn’t have any principles and it’s all a one man show by Jagan. He further said the party’s existence in coming days was doubtful and Jagan would either windup the party or merge it into another.

“Its all one man show in YSRC. Everything is Jagan in the party. No other leader gets importance or prominence.  Party lost due to his dictatorial attitude and arrogance. How many hours did he spend in Vizag for his mother Vijalakshmi’s poll campaign? He was the main reason behind his mother’s embarrassing defeat. He felt insecure that his sister would become another power centre in the party and didn’t make her contest in the polls,” he said.

 Rao added that, Jagan can’t run the party and he had ditched the party workers. He further said that, Jagan was over confident that public would vote to party candidates due to his charishma and gave party tickets to his jail mates.

As expected, Rao, who was sulking from the party activities since the poll results, gave a miss to Jagan’s meeting held in the morning at a private function hall. His son Dadi Ratnakar was given, Vizag West ticket where he lost to a TD candidate.

Dadi Veerabhadhra Rao, has been keeping away from parry activities and is said to have openly expressed displeasure over  the way electioneering was handled by certain group belonging to Jagan in the district keeping aside experienced and senior leaders like him.

He had also denied being party district president when it was offered to him recently after former MLA, Malla Vijay Prasad resigned from the post.

Rao quit TD and joined YSRC a few months before general polls. He was the leader of opposition in the state legislative council when he was in TD.