PK predicts early elections: State releases Rs 1500 crore to ruling party contractors
KAKINADA: Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan has predicted that the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh may take place in the November-December months.
“The ruling YSRC is taking all steps to win the elections. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy released Rs 1,500 crore to select infra companies that are close to the ruling YSRC, so as to get monetary favours to the party in the next elections,” PK said on Monday.
He also claimed that the ruling party planned to defeat him by spending '200 crore.
Pawan Kalyan was speaking at Sarpavaram junction in Kakinada on Sunday night in the course of his Varahi Yatra. He also interacted with Veera Mahilas and “activist intellectuals” in Kakinada city on Monday.
He said, “Though the government has not released funds to contractors for the works they did, it released funds to some contractors who are close to the YSRC. This raises suspicion.”
Jana Sena, he said, wants to protect women from harassment. During the YSRC rule, many women, girls and even boys were killed in incidents. The law and order situation has “worsened” in the state in recent years.
He said that Kakinada was known as the Pensioners’ paradise, but most of the voters in the upper middle class segment there “don’t want to come to the polling booths.” This, he said, was a dangerous trend. It would help criminals to get elected to legislative bodies. If the rulers are not responsive, the administration will not work properly. The rulers should be dignified in their manners, he said.
Interacting with the fishermen community on Sunday night, Pawan Kalyan said he wanted fishing to be treated on par with agriculture. The Jana Sena would sort out the fisher folk’s issues in a planned manner, he said.
Fishermen told PK that due to ONGC drilling operations, the daily fish catch was getting reduced. Pawan Kalyan said the Jana Sena was having clear ideas on environment-related issues and would take steps to avoid pollution of the sea waters.