Bureaucrat admits a farm scam, but CM keeps mum: TD Pattabhi

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who held a review meeting on purchase of farm products, is keeping mum on the Rs 200 crore scam, said Telugu Desam spokesperson Kommareddy Pattabhiram.

Speaking to the media at the party office at Mangalagiri on Wednesday, Pattabhiram said civil supplies corporation managing director Veera Pandyan himself admitted to misuse of funds amounting to Rs 150 crore in the purchase of farm products during Rabi season by creating 2,800 fake accounts.

When the government officer himself admitted to the scam in purchase of farm products, the Chief Minister should first conduct a review meeting on the allegation, he pointed out.

Civil supplies minister Karumuri Nageswara Rao, who indulged in attacks on Amaravati farmers at Tanuku, had no answer to this scam, he said.

When the huge scandal amounting to Rs 200 crore has already come to light, what the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is doing and why it is keeping quiet on this, he asked.