YSR Congress party will remain neutral in the national politics and it will not join either Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance or the Congress-led INDIA bloc, party general secretary V Vijay Sai Reddy said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters, Sai Reddy said the YSRCP had no affiliation to any alliance and would act independently depending on the issues. “With regard to one-nation-one-election issue, we initially supported it, but whatever our party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy decides, it will be our stand,” he said.
The YSRCP general secretary, who is also a member of the joint parliamentary committee constituted by the Centre to decide on the one nation, one election bill, said he would put forth the party stand at the JPC meetings.
Sai Reddy said the YSRCP would take up state-wide protest – Poru Baata- on December 27 against the TDP-led coalition government on the hike in power charges. The party will undertake state-wide protests on December 27 protesting against the power tariff hike.
He alleged that the coalition government was burdening the people by over Rs 15,000 crore by increasing the power charges going against the poll promise that there would be no hike in power tariff.
“The power charges would be going up by Rs 1.50 per unit from next month and the coalition government has taken loans to a tune of Rs 75,000 crore in just six months but not a single rupee was spent on welfare,” he said.