Andhra Pradesh: Infighting headache for YSRC at Mylavaram

VIJAYAWADA: The YSR Congress appears to have a tough time in Mylavaram assembly constituency. Legislator Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad is faced with trouble within the party due to internal squabbles, even as chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is preparing the rank and file for the next assembly elections.
Krishna Prasad has offered to sit aside if the party appointed a coordinator for the constituency.He has also volunteered to stay away from the next election campaign if the party leadership decided to deny him the party ticket.
Sources said that housing minister Jogi Ramesh is lobbying with the chief minister to shift his constituency from Pedana to Mylavaram, where he lost to TDP in 2014.
Jagan had named Krishna Prasad at one of the review meetings on door-to-door campaigns and told the MLA to start visiting voters.
"I am with the people always ever since I was elected, except for a few days when I was in the US or fell sick," said Krishna Prasad while speaking to TOI over phone on Wednesday. He said that some people were feeding wrong information to the party leadership and said he is prepared to accept any decision.
Meanwhile, Krishna Prasad's father and former minister Vasantha Nageswara Rao made critical comments on the state government. He found fault with the government for diluting Amaravati as capital and not giving a social group its due representation in the state cabinet.
While it is not known what prompted the former minister to criticise the government, Krishna Prasad condemned his father's remarks on Amaravati and representation to a particular social group in the state cabinet. He also condemned his father's criticism of the state government removing NTR's name from the University of Health Sciences.
Nageswara Rao, however, reiterated his statement expressing his displeasure over the government's decisions. He had expected a cabinet berth for Krishna Prasad in the recent reshuffle and he is said to be disappointed on non-inclusion of his son.