YSRCP to launch statewide protests from Uttarandhra against Naidu Govt’s failures

Visakhapatnam, October 5: The YSR Congress Party has resolved to wage an uncompromising fight against the anti-people policies and failures of the Chandrababu Naidu–led coalition government, announced regional coordinators Kurasala Kannababu and Botsa Satyanarayana after a key review meeting of North Andhra districts held in Visakhapatnam today.

They declared that on October 9, former CM and YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will visit the incomplete Narsipatnam Medical College to expose the government’s attempts to privatize public medical colleges and address the people directly.
The leaders charged that the coalition has inflicted irreparable injustice on North Andhra. 

Irrigation projects like Vamsadhara, Janjavathi, Sujala Sravanthi and Thotapalli have been pushed into cold storage, while valuable Visakhapatnam lands are being handed to corporates at throwaway rates. 

Land has been allotted cheaply to firms like Lulu and TCS while thousands of street hawkers and small traders have been evicted overnight—42,000 families rendered homeless in the name of development. Meanwhile, Chandrababu is pushing Amaravati by borrowing Rs. 1 lakh crore, without spending even a rupee on North Andhra.

On Vizag Steel Plant, the leaders alleged that the Centre is accelerating privatization while the coalition government remains a mute spectator. 

YSRCP vowed to resist this move at any cost until privatization is rolled back. Fisherfolk have also raised strong objections to the proposed Bulk Drug Park near Payakaraopeta citing threats to livelihoods and environment, yet the government is ignoring public opinion.

The party further slammed the government for reversing education reforms—scrapping CBSE and IB syllabi, halting student tablets, and diluting the nutritious mid-day meal menu. Welfare schemes like the auto driver program were reduced to tokenism, with only 2.9 lakh beneficiaries covered out of 15 lakh.

Botsa Satyanarayana said YSRCP would expose the PPP model of privatizing 10 government medical colleges as a “betrayal of public health.” The party will also campaign on Vizag airport neglect and the collapse of industrial growth.

The meeting resolved to strengthen party committees up to state level by November and to conduct regular reviews. 

“YSRCP will be the voice of the poor, stand with every victim of injustice, and fight until North Andhra gets its due,” the leaders affirmed.