YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy seems to be testing his own popularity among the voters of Kovur constituency in the by-elections, polling for which is being held on Sunday.
Contrary to the assumptions and allegations that YSR Congress party would pump in huge money in the Kovur by-elections, there was surprisingly no such attempt by the party. There was a talk that Jagan would dump money bags in the eleventh hour and distribute at least Rs 5,000 per vote among the people, but surprisingly it did not happen.
While the Congress and Telugu Desam Party candidates distributed huge amount among the voters, as high as Rs 2,000 per vote, YSR Congress party candidate Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy refrained from money distribution in a big way, except for about Rs 200 per head among the party sympathizers towards election expenses in the last minute.
Apparently, Jagan is learnt to have advised Prasanna not to distribute any money because he wants to test the real love of the people towards him and his party.
“It is definitely a calculated risk. He wants to know whether his popularity among the people is genuine or whether the voters would succumb only to money power. He does not mind even if the verdict goes otherwise, but it will give him an opportunity to rework his strategies,” a political observer remarked.
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