After Poll Tension: All Three Parties to Hold Meetings Today
posted on Jun 14, 2012 @ 5:07PM
With the polling completed for the byelections on 12 June, all the three major parties, Congress, YSR Congress and TDP are reeling under after-poll tension. The immediate political future of these parties would highly depend on the outcome of these byelections. In this backdrop, all these parties have decided to hold strategy meetings late on Thursday.
Basing on the results predicted by some of the exit polls on Tuesday evening, there is optimism in the Congress and the TDP that it could be a close contest and that they could secure a few seats, a confidence they did not have when the byelections were announced. The mood in the YSR Congress is also tense, as it is their future that would be the most impacted either for the better or for the worse depending on the number of seats they secure. At the same time, there is apprehension in the ruling party and the leading opposition party over a possible exodus in the wake of Jaganmohan Reddy putting up an impressive performance.
The meetings have been slated for later in the day as most of the political leaders including chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and TDP president Chandrababu Naidu will be pre-occupied with the wedding of Chiranjeevi's son and actor Ram Charan Tej on Thursday morning. and the informal meetings are slated for later in the day. The YSR Congress leaders are meeting in the late afternoon, which the party working president Vijayamma and daughter Sharmila will attend. The meeting will take place after some of the family members including Jagan's wife Bharati meets Jagan, who is currently lodged in Chanchalguda Jail.