It will be between TDP and YSRCP in 2019: Mekapati

YSRCP MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy and party coordinator Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy on Friday asserted that their party would not enter into an alliance with either the BJP or the Congress in the 2019 elections.

Charging Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu with spreading lies, they told the media here that Mr. Naidu made it a single point agenda during Mahanadu and portrayed the YSRCP and the BJP as partners.

The TDP had been in alliance with the BJP for four years since the 2014 elections. And now Mr. Naidu was desperately trying to distance himself from the BJP with a view on the 2019 elections, they said.

The BJP had no strong presence in the State, Mr. Rajamohan Reddy said, and added that it would be a straight fight between the YSRCP and the TDP in the 2019 elections.

Fight for SCS

He said the YSRCP was working with the Left and other like-minded parties on various issues, including the Special Category Status (SCS), and pre-poll alliance with these parties could not be ruled out.

Mr. Ramakrishna Reddy said it was YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy who had been steadfastly demanding SCS from the beginning as it was considered the only way to put the State on a level-playing field.