Massive protests against medical college privatization on Nov12

Tadepalli, 11 November: YSRCP State Coordinator Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy held a teleconference with party MPTCs and Parliamentary Observers today and called for historic, peaceful rallies tomorrow across all Assembly constituencies against the coalition government’s move to privatize government medical colleges.
Sajjala said that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy created a healthcare revolution, establishing 17 new government medical colleges and operationalizing 5 within a record period, making quality medical education accessible to poor and middle-class students. “Where YS Jagan fulfilled the dreams of medical aspirants, Chandrababu Naidu has crushed them,” he stated.
He criticized the Naidu government for trying to hand over public medical colleges to private hands, while even Telangana, without complete infrastructure, secured medical college permissions and ran them successfully. “If Telangana can prioritize public medical education, why is Chandrababu destroying it in Andhra Pradesh?” he questioned.
He urged party leaders, parents, students, doctors, civil society, intellectuals, and social activists to join tomorrow’s rallies and “make the government step back from this anti-people policy.” He stressed that these protests must become a national talking point to protect the healthcare rights of the poor.
Sajjala also directed party cadres to stay battle-ready for the upcoming local body elections, prepare organizational committees, appoint booth-level agents, strengthen digital systems, and aggressively communicate both YS Jagan’s welfare governance and the current government’s failures and corruption to the public.
“Let us amplify people’s voices through ground activism and social media. This is a public movement to save medical education and healthcare in Andhra Pradesh,” Sajjala affirmed.