Lokesh Says State Government Implementing 2024 Poll Promises
Education minister Nara Lokesh has said the state government is giving full attention to the implementation of promises: Reports
VIJAYAWADA: Education minister Nara Lokesh has said the state government is giving full attention to the implementation of promises made during the 2024 elections in a systematic manner.
He was addressing an event in Mangalagiri constituency when several senior YSRC leaders and their supporters joined the Telugu Desam in his presence in the run-up to the local body elections.
Notable among them were Vaddeswarapu Rajanikanth, YSRC Guntur parliamentary vice-president and former Duggirala mandal parishad president, who joined the TD along with 25 families from Chiluvuru village in Duggirala mandal. Lokesh welcomed them into the party by presenting them with yellow scarves.
In a separate event, senior YSRC leaders Damarla Kuberaswamy, Tholeti Ravindra and Shaik Abdul Salam joined the TD along with their supporters. Kuberaswamy was the YSRC Guntur district general secretary and secretary of the Mangalagiri town Padmasaliya Bahuthama Sangham. He joined TD with his family members. Local YSRC activists Bitra Seshanjaneyulu and Bitra Srinivasa Rao also joined the TD.
Ravindra, vice-president of the state Brahmin Seva Sangham, as also Salam, a senior YSRC leader from Duggirala mandal, joined the TD.
Lokesh urged them to work together to explain the government's development and welfare initiatives to people ahead of the local body elections.
He said infrastructure and public amenities, including underground drainage, a hospital, community halls, parks, anganwadi buildings, libraries and burial grounds, were being developed in Mangalagiri constituency. Roads, shadikhana buildings and community halls had also been constructed in Duggirala mandal.
Recalling the mandate given to the TD-led alliance in the 2024 elections, Lokesh said the result had increased his responsibility towards the constituency. He called on TD workers to secure a bigger majority for alliance candidates in the local body elections and maintain peace during the electoral process.
