Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu said on January 3 that he was neither longing to become the Chief Minister again nor was the TDP-Jana Sena Party (JSP) alliance desperate to come to power, asserting that their goal was to get rid of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) in the interest of the people and the State’s future.
Addressing a meeting after welcoming leaders from various parties, who included YSRCP MLC C. Ramachandraiah, former Minister Dadi Veerabhadra Rao and former MLA Gadikota Dwarakanath Reddy (relative of YSRCP Rajya Sabha member V. Vijaya Sai Reddy) into the party, Mr. Naidu said the State was bogged down by a massive debt of nearly ₹12 lakh crore, but there was little development as Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy was obsessed with welfare.
He pointed out that Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy had scrapped a majority of the welfare schemes that were implemented by the TDP government and changed the names of the remaining.
