Jagan tries pacification, but will it work?

Several ministers and MLAs staged protests and expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that they were not inducted into the new cabinet by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. While Udaya Bhanu and Ramakrishna Reddy remained silent, their supporters blocked the roads – staging a rasta roko – and even asked their leaders to come out of the party. Partha Saradhi and his supporters did not make any protest, but Saradhi communicated his feelings to the chief minister.

Former minister and Rajya Sabha member Mopidevi Venkata Ramana mediated between the three leaders and CM Jagan and arranged for a meeting at the CM’s Tadepalli camp office. The three of them met with the CM separately today, where he is said to have explained the difficulties in forming the new cabinet, where he was bound to forming it within the limitations of reservations.

On the other hand, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana also held talks with former home minister Mekathoti Sucharitha who had threatened to quit the party in protest and requested her to meet the CM, but she refused to do so. The CM also held talks with other ministers, and tried to convince them, and make them see the point in his decision making. While everything seems to have been put in place, for now, there’s no saying how things will turn out to be in the months to come, and what it might result in, for the YSRCP and CM Jagan.