Jagan MLAs willing to return to Congress: DL

KADAPA: Health minister DL Ravindra Reddy has said many Jagan loyalist MLAs, including those from the YSRC chief’s native district Kadapa, are inclined to return into the Congress fold. One of the MLAs from Kadapa is in touch with him, while three others are in direct contact with chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, he said.Speaking to mediapersons after inaugurating a library building at Mydukur on Thursday, the minister said as Jagan’s political future was in jeopardy in the wake of a CBI inquiry into his illegal assets, many MLAs who supported him after the demise of former chief minister YSR, were now trying to return to the Congress.The MLAs are rethinking on continuing in the Jagan group as they are of the view that it is better to be in the Congress for their political future.“The MLAs have realised the fact that Congress alone has progressive ideology and is really committed to people’s cause and staying with the YSRC chief will serve them no purpose,” he said. The minister said some other MLAs who got benefited during the regime of YSR, were hesitating to leave Jagan though they are well aware of the fact that there is no alternative to the Congress.Referring to the High Court’s direction to the CBI to probe the riches of former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu based on a petition filed by YSRC honorary president YS Vijayamma, he said the TDP supremo should welcome the inquiry against him if he was really honest in public life. AICC president Sonia Gandhi will not tolerate corruption, which is evident with trial of former Central minister in 2G Spectrum scam, he said and made it clear that his opposition to Re 1-a-kg rice scheme was his personal view.It will be better to have a uniform policy nationwide on supplying subsidised rice to the poor people, he said