Jagan surrendering before Delhi for personal favour: Naidu

Vijayawada: Telugu Desam chief and former CM Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday asked chief minister Jagan to explain to the people what he had achieved out of his latest visit to Delhi.

Did the CM seek Special Status, Polavaram funds, Visakhapatnam railway zone and protection of Vizag Steel Plant? Did he have any courage to tell the people about his achievements,” Naidu asked.

Delivering the valedictory address at the party state- level meeting here, the TD chief sought an unconditional apology to the people from the CM for his “failures” vis-a-vis the reorganisation promises.

Jagan Reddy, who spoke in the past of bending the back of the Centre was now surrendering to Delhi for his own personal gains at the cost of AP’s future, he said.

Naidu said the people here are facing danger from Jagan’s misrule, which was a “worse threat than the coronavirus.”

With a little caution, people can escape from Covid infection but there would be no escape for them if they were hit with the Jagan virus. The last three years of the Jagan rule have caused unprecedented financial, physical and mental pain and anguish to all sections of the people, Naidu averred.

Addressing a state-level meeting of MPs, MLAs, parliamentary and assembly in charges, Naidu said TD leaders were being persecuted with fabricated cases and false arrests under the Jagan rule.

Naidu recalled how the TD government gave a “good direction” to the state and raised the hopes on the development of AP even as it was faced with very limited resources after bifurcation. There was a Rs 22,000 crore deficit in the budget but welfare and development were taken up in right earnest, he claimed.

Naidu asserted that the TD government spent Rs 64,000 crore on irrigation projects and completed 71 per cent of the works on Polavaram. “Amaravati was developed into a Rs 2 lakh cr asset. The TD made over 2.65 lakh TIDCO houses ready for distribution but Jagan would not hand them over to the beneficiaries,” he said.

The TD chief said the entire state was reeling under the impact of the YSRC misrule. While his party considered society as a temple and the poor people as its gods, “Jagan has been looting the society and considering the poor families as his easy prey.”

“The Thalli Bidda Express and ambulance services have been stopped. The elementary system was given a goodbye. The age-old systems were under threat. Jagan did not give one single teacher job since he came to power. The Jagan rule, which promised Prohibition, made the people drink over Rs 124 crore of liquor in one single day,” Naidu said.