YSRCP Stepping out to win GVMC polls

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 04:36 PM

YSRCP Stepping out to win GVMC polls

Visakhapatnam: YSR Congress Party appears the firm favourite to bag the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation and the mayoral post in the March 10 elections.

With the campaign entering the last phase during the weekend, YSRCP led by its Rajya Sabha member and north Andhra representative Vijay Sai Reddy along with in-charge Minister K Kannababu and local Minister Avanti Srinivasa Rao, is way ahead of others.



A close confidant of Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy ever since the party was founded, Vijay Sai is pulling all strings to ensure victory as the Vizag mayoral post has to be offered as a gift to Jagan. Towards this, he liberally allowed entry to leaders of other parties who queued up to join the ruling party in the State which left the main opposition -the Telugu Desam Party, as well as the BJP-Jana Sena Party, combine high and dry.

The situation was so pathetic for the TDP that its urban district president and Visakhapatnam South MLA Vasupalle Ganesh Kumar openly declared his support for the ruling party in the state a couple of months back, resulting in the exodus of his followers from TDP.

While the other TDP MLAs-Ganababu of Visakhapatnam West and Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu of Visakhapatnam East failed to impress upon the voters who are reaping the benefits of the state government welfare schemes, another MLA and former minister-Ganta Srinivasa Rao of Visakhapatnam North who had distanced himself from party activities for quite some time, also had not shown any interest in the civic polls till the last minute.

However, when the TDP president Chandrababu Naidu arrived last week for campaign, he made it a point to meet him and discuss with him the situation which is gloomy.