The three-day review meet of YSR Congress pertaining to North Coastal Andhra and the Godavari districts started at the R and B guest house on Wednesday. Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy presided over the meet. As far as East Godavari is concerned, the review was conducted for five Assembly segments of Tuni and Prathipadu Peddapuram in upland areas of the district and Kakinada rural and Amalapuram. A few leaders of Tuni expressed fear over some sort of harassment by the Telugu Desam as the latter was now in power. Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, however, allayed their fear and assured them that he wou-ld stand by them, not only in the segments but also at the state level.
Several leaders brought to the notice of the leadership the issues that led to party’s debacle. According to them, the party’s chances were badly affected due to overconfidence about the party’s win in the polls at the state level, assurances by TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu on loan waiver to farmers and women SHGs, intensive campaigning in favour of the TD-BJP combine by actor Pawan Kalyan and the Narendra Modi factor.
Mr Reddy gave a patient hearing to each of the leaders who spoke on poll issues segment-wise. He also reviewed the votes polled party-wise in ZP.
He called for introspection on the poll results.
