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.