YSRC plenary to put TDP on mat over scams

VISAKHAPATNAM: Stage is set for the district YSRC plenary targeting the failures of the ruling TDP and also focusing on strengthening of the party. During the session, the party’s main focus would be on land scams that had taken place on the outskirts of Vizag. As part of its plan, the party would also focus on its ‘Save Vizag’ campaign to create awareness of the TDP leaders’ involvement in land scandals.
The plenary would be held at Port Kalavani Stadium on Sunday which will see participation of important cadres and leaders of 15 Assembly constituencies, including the seven urban ones, and three parliamentary segments.The plenary would start around 9.30 am and conclude at 2 pm.
Around 10 to 12 items would be on the agenda and the plenary would pass a number of resolutions, including one for a CBI inquiry into the land scams, one for a separate railway zone headquartered at Visakhapatnam, one on the Polavaram project and another for special category status to AP.
The plenary would be presided over by party’s district president Gudiwada Amarnath and chaired by in-charge of YSRC affairs and former minister Kolusu Partha Sarathi. Party’s Rajya Sabha member V Vijaya Sarathi, state party secretary Prasada Raju, former MLA Vangaveeti Radha Krishna and former minister Botsa Satyanarayana would also be there at the plenary.
According to sources, booth-level committee convenors, ward presidents, district committee members and state committee members would be among 3,000 invitees attending the meeting. Many aspirants of MLA tickets in all the 15 Assembly constituencies are unhappy with the constituency in-charge system. Owing to this, many leaders had become inactive and were not involving themselves in party programmes, a senior YSRC leader told TOI on condition of anonymity.
Disenchantment with the in-charge system had apparently led to groupism in urban areas, though the party’s position was somewhat better in rural areas, he added.
Amarnath said that the party had been gaining the confidence of the people in the district who had been witnessing illegal activities like land and other scams perpetrated by the ruling party. “We would continue our demand for a CBI inquiry into the land scams. If the government doesn’t concede to our demand, then we would knock at the doors of the courts for justice to land scam victims. If at all there are any dissident groups in the district, we would bring them round and create a better environment for strengthening the party,” he said.