Homecoming of a prodigal son: Alla Ramakrishna Reddy returns to YSRCP fold

AMARAVATHI: It’s case of homecoming of the prodigal son. Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, a trusted lieutenant of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy returned to the fold of YSR Congress a few days after quitting the party and his MLA post from Mangalagiri.

Ramakrishna Reddy has been supporting Jagan’s sister Y S Sharmila and extended all the necessary help for her 3,600-km padayatra in Telangana. After she had failed to crack the political code with her YSR Telangana Party and also to join the Congress in Telangana, she conceded the Congress demand and became Andhra Pradesh unit’s president to revive the party. Ever since, Alla Ramakrishna Reddy was vocal about his support to her and began hobnobbing with the Congress party. He finally called it quits with Jagan and crossed over to the APCC.

However, the impudent YSRCP MLA who gained the credit of defeating Nara Lokesh, TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu’s son, in Mangalagiri, felt suffocated there and decided to pull the plug.

He called on YS Jagan on Tuesday and promised to work for the party in the upcoming elections.

He said that the YSRCP Congress had given him an opportunity to get elected as an MLA twice and stood by him.

A leader belonging to the backward classes would contest in behalf of the party form Mangalagiri in the upcoming elections. He asserted that he had special affection for the YSR Congress and that’s why he had returned to the party fold. He said Lokesh would lose in Mangalagiri again, this time in the hands of a BC leader.

He repented for having to stay away from the party for two months.

The opposition did not want the poor and the downtrodden to benefit.

With a view to failing the evil attempts, he decided to get back to the YSR Congress.

“I will ensure the victory of any candidate fielded by the YSR Congress in Mangalagiri.”

Jagan was treading the path of the late Dr Rajasekhara Reddy. He pointed out that it’s for the party leadership to decide on the candidate of Mangalagiri.

Interestingly, Ramakrishna Reddy (RK) is a crusader waging a legal battle against former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and current Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in the infamous cash-for-vote case. Ramakrishna Reddy’s case is pending before the Supreme Court.