KURNOOL: YSRC president chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy gave a call to people to send AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu “home” for his failure to keep his electoral promises made during the time of the 2014 elections. Charging Mr Naidu with all round failure, he asked during his road show for the Nandyal byelection: “Shall we let go of this Chief Minister? Do we need to send such people to home or not? Leaders would act responsibly. And I ask you to take up that responsibility and send Naidu home,” he said.
Speaking at Gospadu, the YSRC chief asked why the entire Cabinet was staying at Nandyal. “Where were these people during the last three-and-a-half years? Why are they concentrating only on Nandyal now? Are they here only because the YSRC is contesting this election? Naidu is concentrating on Nandyal because he had not done anything and no section of society received any of his government’s benefits,” he said. He said that the farming community had borne the brunt of the Naidu’s government’s failure to implement the farmers loan waiver scheme. The CM promised to waive all loans taken by the farming community. But most of them are still facing hardships due to debts.
The promise to set up a Rs 5,000 crore price stabilisation fund was not fulfilled, he said. As a result farmers cultivating cotton, chilli and pulses did not get a remunerative price. “Mr Naidu’s promise of constructing the Gundrevula project is pending,” he added. He held Mr Naidu responsible for encouraging defections in the Opposition parties and luring voters with money in Nandyal. “To appease the voters, Naidu issued thousands of government orders releasing funds for development programmes,” he said. “The affection showed by the CM towards Nandyal people will last till the end of the byelection only,” he said.
He alleged that Mr Naidu was “threatening” Opposition leaders by conducting police raids on their residences, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy said. He said the people should “catch ruling party leaders by the scruff of their neck and question them” for going back on election promises. Mr Reddy claimed that Mr Naidu had not fulfilled a single election promise in toto. “He did not fulfil even the promises made for the betterment of this constituency and his Cabinet colleagues have the audacity to seek votes in the bypoll,” he said.
“He promised to develop the district by bringing in an airport, Urdu University, and creating a smart city besides a mining school, food park, cement factories and industrial parks. It is three years since and nothing has come up so far,” he said. “You have to teach such people a fitting lesson by rejecting them in the election and show the power of ballot,’ he said.
