Kurnool: Telugu Desam district president Somisetty Venkateshwarlu accused Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of driving away investors from entering Andhra Pradesh. He said that Jagan was writing letters to National and International investors not to invest in Amaravati as that would bring credit to AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. He said that while Mr Naidu was globetrotting in search of investment, the Opposition leader was indulging in mudslinging against the state leadership.
He said that in the Praja Sankalapa Yatra, what Jagan was doing was identifying lands that had good mineral resources and maintaining a diary village-wise to grab them. Jagan’s intent, he said, was only to profit from people’s miseries. He was sitting with huge government lands full of minerals taken for the industrialisation of the state. But what Jagan did was to use those factories and resources and rope in foreign entities at a huge profit.
He was referring to Bharathi Cements, which was given limestone reserves over hundreds of acres in Kadapa for captive consumption. But Jagan sold these reserves to a French Company, he added. Mr Somisetty also said that the weekly ritual of appearing in CBI courts at Hyderabad has taken the sheen out of Jagan’s Padayatra. He said someone should advise Jagan to wind up his yatra as it had lost its appeal.
