Chittoor ignored by Naidu, Kiran

B Kothakota
(Chittoor). December 16:Reiterating that TDP and Congress are working in
tandem, YSR Congress Honorary President, YS Vijayamma said TDP MLAs are
deserting the Party as they are fed up with N Chandrababu Naidu and his
policies.

Addressing
a large public meeting here today, YS VIjayamma took strong objection to his
remark that MLAs are joining YSCP taking a package. “What package did you take
while defecting to TDP from Congress?, she asked and made light of his tall
claims on development.

Being
the Chief Minister for nearly nine years, he had done nothing to the district.
One thing what he had done was to destroy the Chittoor dairy which was running
in huge profits. He had done this to benefit Heritage Foods, run by his family
members and went on to become the richest politician, as described by a leading
magazine. Even now, I ask him what he has done to Chittoor district.

Chief
Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who also hails from this district and his
contribution is zero and he has driven farmers to a desperate position where
they are forced to declare a crop holiday, she said adding that Chief Minister
is trying to sell out the Rs 300-crore Chittoor Dairy to his close associates
for a paltry Rs 149 crores. Steep hike in power tariff, gas prices and bus
charges and burdening the common man is the only achievement of this Chief
Minister, she said.

Nearly
65 per cent of the population depend on agriculture and power cuts are so
severe that they are unable to draw water and with 16 days power cuts in a
month, industries are being shut down rendering many people jobless. All
sections of the society are unhappy with the governance of the Kiran Kuamr
Reddy, she said.  

YSR
on the other hand had brought in Jalayagnam with a cost of Rs 51,000 crore to
provide water to 2 lakh acres through 86 projects.

Handri
Niva project got a fillip only in the YSR regime and he had completed nearly 95
per cent of the work. It took nearly three years for the Congress Government to
complete the rest and it is pity that it was inaugurated in a hurry and YSR was
remembered during the inauguration.

Chandrababu
Naidu on the other hand despite claiming that he has clout at the Centre during
United Front and NDA government, could not bring a single project nor an
industry to the district nor the state as he had a personal agenda to fulfill.

He
has been working hand in glove with Congress and the two parties are working to
safeguard each other. While TDP is coming to the rescue to the Congress, even
in the recent FDI voting, the Centre right from United Front days has been
shielding him on various corruption charges.

Even
in the State, he is on a save Congress mission without moving a no confidence
motion and in return he is untouched by any investigation agency. I feel sad
when I look at the state of political affairs in the state, she said.

Congress
and TDP had ganged up and put Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail. They sacrificed
Mopidevi Venkataramana and the government is applying double standards as its
approach in dealing with another tainted minister Dharmana Prasad Rao is
different.

For
YSR and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy all regions be it Chittor, Srikakulam or Adilabad
are the same, she said.

YS
Jagan Mohan Reddy will come out clean and he will fulfill all the promises of
YSR and usher in a welfare state as no section is happy with the Congress rule,
she said.

She
congratulated Praveen Kumar Reddy, who joined the Party and his supporters of
Tambaalapalli constituency.