Mumbai: Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy gives his first interview on the election campaign. Speaking to India Today's Rajdeep Sardesai, CM Reddy spoke on a wide range of issues. Here are some highlights:
'There is no anti-incumbency on govt or CM… I am asking for votes in my name… It’s bipolar contest in Andhra Pradesh'.
Andhra Pradesh’s capital city
'Visakhapatnam will be Andhra Pradesh capital'. 'Visakhapatnam is the biggest city in Andhra Pradesh. With an investment of probably 10,000 crores or 5000 crores over a period of may be 5-10 years, you would actually see Vizag competing with Hyderabad, Bangalore or Chennai over the course of the next 10 years'.
Stone throwing incident
‘TDP’s people threw stones at me’.
Arrest of Chandrababu Naidu
‘Courts deemed it fit for Naidu to be sent to prison for 52 days, then that means he has done something’.
Jagan Reddy on possibility of post-poll tieup with BJP
'They (Modi, Naidu) are together fighting against me... Where is the question of this hypothetical situation?"
Jagan Reddy on sister Sharmila leading AP Cong
‘The reason I am hurt is because she (Y S Sharmila) will lose deposits. It pains me the most to see her lose deposits’. ‘Chandrababu Naidu, through Revanth, driving my sister and Congress’. ‘Congress party is remote controlled by Chandrababu Naidu’.
Jagan rejects charges of dynasty politics
‘In 2014, somebody could have said about me as dynast… Fifteen years after my father’s death, how can you say I am a dynast?’