The Story Of Two-Year Long Corruption

Hyderabad: The two-year long administration of Chandrababu is full of corruption, scams and mafia activities. Chandrababu and co. is only interested in earning lakhs of crores of rupees by hook or crook. TDP is breaking its own records in corruption, with the corruption in the last two years exceeding that of the previous 9-year tenure. The 2-year corruption in the form of bribes, commissions and unlawful contracts amounts to Rs.1.5 lakh crore and ranges from lands to projects, liquor to mud and sand to mines. Senior officials of the Government are also at shock seeing this new level of corruption. Senior journalists in the yellow media too, unable to write it, are sharing their surprise with their colleagues.

Capital city occupies the first place in the list

The land mafia happening in the name of capital city Amaravathi is being described to be of international recognition. This scam has literally places people of 29 villages on the road. 33,000 acres have been snatched unjustly from the farmers and plans are being made to destroy 32,000 acres of forest land behind the back of the central Government. Endowments lands, assigned lands and waqf lands joining along, together amount to 1 lakh acres of lands, making the scam of value a minimum of Rs.1 lakh crore. It is being opined that giving away these many lands to foreign benami companies is nothing but treason.

Corruption in irrigation projects

Work of Gorakallu, Galeru-Nagari Sujala Sravanthi and Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi have been cancelled from the previous contractors against regulations. The estimated expenditure of these works have been increased by many times. Tenders have been invited without seeking administrative permissions. Surprisingly the tenders of all 25 packages reached TDP MP CM Ramesh and other TDP leaders. Almost Rs.6000 crore has been pocketed in these areas. The Government’s Chief Secretary of that time, IYR Krishnarao and the present Chief Secretary Tucker, both denied three times to sign these files. The Government was able to get things done through ‘cabinet approval’. CM Chandrababu called it quits with EPC (Engineering, Prourement, Construction) system in order to handle irrigation contracts and make payments at his will. GO no.22 was brought. Rs.3000 crore was paid extra to irrigation contractors. Rs.1500 crore was unlawfully involved in transactions in this issue.

Pattiseema, another area of corruption

Chandrababu promised prior to elections that the multi-purpose Polavaram project would be completed. But after coming into power he chose to rather work on Pattiseema lift irrigation scheme with greed for commissions. It is understood that Rs.300 crore was projected in the Rs.1600 crore worth scheme.

Corruption shocks in power projects

In spite of the finance department’s warning that the state would have to face a loss of Rs.2300 crore due to giving discount on VAT for power projects, CM Chandrababu did not care. Discount was given on VAT, pocketing huge amounts from corporate companies, it is rumoured. The escalation permitted by Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Government on irrigation projects’ contracts was temporarily put on hold by the Governor during the president’s rule. When Babu came to power, he spoke to the contractors and sanctioned Rs.17,967 crore for escalation. It is an official rumour that Government veterans had their pockets heavy in this issue.

Liquor mafia has its own credit

Chandrababu increased liquor sales in order to increase the income of the state. Pushing aside the promise made to the people about cutting down the number of belt shops, he started advertising and encouraging people to drink more and more liquor. It is heard that Babu’s family is being directly benefited from this area.

Share in industrial discounts

Chandrababu released Rs.2067 crore at the end of the previous financial year in the name of ‘old industrial discount dues’ in order to benefit his allies. Releasing such huge amounts at such a time raised eyebrows. It is complained that Lokesh received almost 30% of this amount, as the CM directly brought pressure on the officials of department of industries.

TDP corruption rust infests the central Government too

Chandrababu’s corruption empire extended to Delhi too. OSD working under cabinet minister Sujana Chowdary held relations with controversial businesspeople. This OSD is said to have been appointed by Lokesh. Hence, it is clear who is behind all this.

Corruption in sand mafia

Sand has become a primary source of income for ministers and ruling party MLAs and MPs lately. Chandrababu previously announced that the responsibility of supply had been given to DWCRA groups in order to put a stop on the sand mafia. But digging and sale of sand is being performed by the ruling party leaders under the mask of DWCRA. 75% of the sand in coastal region an North Andhra region and 90% of it in Rayalaseema districts is being sold by the ruling party leaders themselves. While the Government was supposed to earn Rs.4480 crore from sand, it could only earn Rs.964 crore, which means Rs.3516 crore has been swallowed by corrupt leaders, from which 75% reached the pockets of Nara father-son duo.