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He taunted the Congress saying he is doing a favour to his former party by not asking his supporters to withdraw support to the Reddy government.
Jagan, who staged a day-long fast along with his supporters here that included two Congress MPs--Sabbam Hari and Rajmohan Reddy--and 20 MLAs to protest the "injustice" meted out to Andhra Pradesh in the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal award, said "currently I am doing a favour to the Congress party because if my MLAs resign, the government there will fall.
However, Congress sought dismiss his claim as an "illusion" and that the Reddy government was never and would never face any danger.
"Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was never under any threat, is not not under any threat and would never be. If any person has any illusions at all, they will be demystified soon," Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters.
Jagan told reporters at his fast site "Had I wanted, I could have done it a long time ago. I am a gentleman. So I am doing a favour to the Congress party."
He said he has asked his supporters to continue to be in Congress .
"Congress can do so if it wants to take action (party MPs and MLAs). My people are very categorically saying that they have nothing to do with the party and they are still there (in Congress) because I am only asking them to so.
"They have also been saying that in 2014, they would be contesting elections on my party ticket and not Congress` ticket. They are very clearly exhibiting that if they are in Congress, they are doing a favour to Congress party," Jagan said.
Prefacing his speech in the midst of the protest fast with remarks that he was not not here to criticise anybody, Jagan attacked the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal (KDWT) of favouring Karnataka, from where Law Minister Veerappa Moily hailed. Moily is in charge of Congress affairs of Andhra Pradesh, he noted.
Jagan, who has applied for registration of a new political party, today categorically said that he will have no truck with BJP as he would not like to align with a political party doing politics of religion.
