*Prime lands being given away at throwaway prices*

Tadepalli, June 15: YSRCP has reiterated that prime lands are being given away by the coalition government to favoured individuals on a platter in the name of Public-Private Partnership (PPP).

Speaking to the media here on Monday, party spokesperson Karumuri Venkata Reddy said that valuable assets, including government buildings, medical colleges, RTC lands, and other public properties, are being handed over at throwaway prices to a favoured few. He said the party would fight against such moves and explore all available avenues to stop them.

For the past two years, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh have neglected governance and remained obsessed with the PPP model to facilitate the transfer of prime public properties at dirt-cheap prices, with money allegedly changing hands through the backdoor.

Prime lands in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, and other locations are being offered to private parties at throwaway prices once certain obligations are fulfilled, he alleged, adding that the plunder of public assets is continuing unchecked. He said YSRCP would not allow this to happen and would explore all legal and democratic avenues to stall such moves.

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has already warned that if medical colleges are handed over to private parties, cases will be registered against those responsible as soon as YSRCP returns to power. He said the party is already waging a legal battle against such privatization.

“We will not tolerate the handing over of public property to private parties and will fight it out tooth and nail,” he said.