None of us are new to political leaders jumping from party to party, and parties buying out members from other parties. These kinds of things keep happening on a daily basis in politics, but currently, this is happening at a very high rate in Andhra Pradesh politics.
YSRCP is playing a high stakes game with every other political party right now. The best example is that of Dokka Manikya Varaprasad – an MLC from TDP who resigned and then joined YSRCP. Dokka managed to become an MLC in YSRCP as well, and is now being used by YSRCP to bash TDP and its ways. However, the same cannot be said of many MLAs that still belong to TDP, but have already been bought by YSRCP.
Staying and still being a part of TDP, these MLAs are targeting and calling out TDP for its methods. The YSRCP has received a lot of flak for this, as it has not been able to give any guarantee to these MLA candidates, in terms of their posting, and is using them against TDP while they are still part of that party.
YSRCP is doing the same thing with Jana Sena as well, in the form of Rapaka Varaprasad. While he is still a part of YSRCP, Rapaka has been very vocal of his support towards Jagan in the past few days. This way, YSRCP is exacting its revenge against Jana Sena too.
This kind of thing was prominent even during the leadership of Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, when he used rebel TRS members to target TRS.
However, YSRCP too is getting a very good taste of its own medicine in the form of Narasapuram MP Raghurama Krishnamraju. Although the MP has made it clear that he has no intentions of leaving the party, he is not backing out from calling out the party on its flaws. He has targeted Vijayasai Reddy and many other members of YSRCP on many occasions, and has called them thieves too.
At the same time, Raghurama Krishnamraju also says that Jagan is the best CM that AP could ever have, and that he will continue to stay CM for the coming years as well. Even this didn’t stop Raghurama Krishnamraju from asking pressing questions like ‘Where is the real YSRCP? The Yuvajana Raithu Congress Party?’ These kind of questions are bothering YSRCP members very much, and are turning out to be very problematic.
Looks like the YSRCP doesn’t have an answer to its own making for now.