Tadepalli, May 22: Turning the tables on coalition government, former Chief Minister and YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said the liquor scam is a sham in which charges are fabricated only to nullify and weaken the liquor case in which Chandrababu Naidu is on bail and the irregularities being now carried out by him and June 4 will be observed as Betrayal Day to expose the failures of the Government. Speaking to media here on Thursday, he said the government has arrested and has been harassing officials in a vindictive manner and taking statements and confessions and what value do they have while we have documentary evidence on the liquor scam case in which Chandrababu Naidu is on bail and has been violating every norm of the bail. The arrest of small time employees and people who have no concern with the Beverages Corporation only shows that the government wants to weaken and nullify the case registered against Chandrababu and has got bail. The statements of Vasudev Reddy, who was desperate to go back to his home department or the rogue MP (Vijaysai Reddy) who vacated the seat to benefit the coalition will not cut any ice.
Vasudev Reddy has moved court earlier that the government was harassing him. Raj Kasireddy did not yield to the government pressure which is why his name was included in the case and he is the business partner of Vijayawada TDP MP. Rajampet MP Mithun Reddy has asked a simple question to show the Google takeout to show his presence in the meeting and there was no response.
The Delhi liquor scam case is all about the government there shifting liquor deals from public sector to private sector and what we have did was the opposite. Chandrababu on the other hand has encourages private players in his previous term. Chandrababu Naidu’s fraud has been to rig the tenders for allocating liquor shops and increasing the commission after the allotment without prior approval of the cabinet. He has framed the same charges he has been facing in liquor case and is trying to nullify his case by arresting people like Dhanunjay Reddy, Krishnamohan Reddy, and Balaji Govindappa, who is a Director of a group of companies of international repute, which will have an adverse impact on investors. Chandrababu has given major chunk of orders to five of his favoured distilleries and encouraged the syndicate system in placing indent and in sales as well while the liquor trade was done in a transparent manner in our term. Never-seen brands are in circulation now and are sold at a higher price than the MRP and is available at all times. Chandrababu is the real scamster who rigged the lottery to favour his own syndicate of private mafia and gave 69 percent of orders to only five of his favoured distilleries, increased the capacity and waived privilege fees causing a loss to the exchequer Rs 5 crore and his involvement is on paper which makes the case strong. During our term we have taxed more and liquor sales have come down and during Chandrababu’s term the sales have gone up many fold is in private sector.
People are being arrested at will with false cases and charges and even high ranking police officers are arrested and put in jail, he said adding that the data detailing the number of murders, arrests and atrocities would be put on public domain. There is an undeclared emergency going on in the State. Chandrababu and his friendly media has been spreading lies on state finances during our term but the CAG and other reports are in the open which clearly speak the truth that we managed the finances better and purchasing power and growth rate were better during our term. He has been going for heavy borrowings and pouring all the money in to Amaravati, with escalated costs and inflated tenders to benefit his own contractors. Despite declaring Amaravati is a self- financed project, he has been taking huge amount of loans from multiple agencies and has been giving mobilisation advance for kickbacks. Corruption has been rampant with PPAs being signed at Rs 4.60 per unit for 25 years and the scam runs into Rs 11,000 crores. An unconstitutional method was adopted in issuing NMDC bonds to raise Rs 9,000 crore by allowing private parties to have access to Consolidated Fund. Land has been generously given to his favoured companies at throwaway prices. Sand mafia is on the prowl and power charges have gone up.
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