YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has lauded BJP prime ministerial candidate Narenda Modi as a “good administrator,” but has indicated that he wants him to improve his secular credentials.
At a press conference here on Monday, he was asked whom he would support at the Centre after elections. But he said: “We continue to be secular. I am not like Chandrababu Naidu who takes U-turns. We are secular and we are committed to being secular.”
This was Mr. Jagan’s first interaction with the media after he came out of jail in the disproportionate assets case.
Mr. Jagan said he admired Mr. Modi as an administrator.
Pointing out that religion was personal, he asked: “Why should religion be politicised.”
He wanted Mr. Modi to change the entire system to bring every party on a secular platform in the interests of the country.
On the Telugu Desam Party’s charge that the YSR Congress would support the UPA after the elections, he reiterated that he was secular like the Communist parties and the Janata Dal (United). His options were open, especially when the Communists and the JD(U) were there.
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