Govt trying to defame YSRCP with baseless allegations

Amaravati, March 17: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Botcha Satyanarayana, strongly criticized the coalition government for attempting to defame the YSRCP administration.

Speaking to the media outside the Assembly alongside Party MLCs, he stated that a conspiracy lies behind the ruling party's insistence on discussing scams that occurred during the previous YSRCP government. He accused the government of portraying unverified allegations as scams without proper investigation, aiming to tarnish the image of YSRCP's tenure. 
Botcha expressed anger over what he described as a deliberate attempt to spread falsehoods about the YSRCP regime.
He further stated that the ruling coalition, led by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), is manipulating the narrative by selectively focusing on the 2019-24 period, corresponding to YSRCP's rule, while refusing to discuss scams from the broader timeline of 2014-24, which includes the TDP's tenure from 2014-19. Botcha pointed out that the YSRCP had urged the government to debate all scams since the state's bifurcation in 2014, but the coalition government rejected this proposal, limiting the discussion to the YSRCP's five-year rule. He highlighted that the current government has only made allegations over the past ten months regarding YSRCP's governance, with no completed investigations or proven charges to substantiate them. In contrast, he noted that several scandals during the TDP's 2014-19 rule were not only documented but also investigated, with cases registered—yet the government refuses to address these in the discussion.
Botcha accused the coalition government of double standards, asserting that portraying non-existent issues as real and ignoring proven ones is a tactic mastered by TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu. He emphasized that the YSRCP is ready to discuss all scams and reveal the truth to the public but condemned the government's malicious intent to confine the debate to the previous regime’s tenure. In protest against this approach, the YSRCP staged a walkout from the Legislative Council.