Naidu Creating Hurdles for Transfer of Welfare Scheme Money: Jagan
Where will he get money to implement his promises?: CM
VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has slammed Telugu Desam chief Nara Chadrababu Naidu and his alliance partners - Jana Sena and BJP – saying they were deriving sadistic pleasure by attempting to block transfer of money to beneficiaries of AP’s welfare schemes.
Addressing public meetings in Chilakaluripet, Kaikaluru and Pithapuram on the last day of electioneering on Saturday, Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that Naidu was conspiring with the NDA leaders and influencing the people in Delhi, like the Election Commission, to cause hardships to the people here.
“Though the YSRC government was elected to rule the state for 60 months, its duration was strangled to 57 months,” he said.
The Chief Minister said, two months ago, those who used to receive their social security pension at their doorsteps on the first day of every month were denied this favour through machinations of Naidu and his allies.
Through an EC order, the services of volunteers were withdrawn for election-related work. This made the pensioners suffer this month. They had to go and wait in the hot sun to get the money. “Similarly, money was not released into the bank accounts of beneficiaries of certain welfare schemes even though I pressed the button to directly transfer the money to them.”
He said, citing the poll code, permission has been denied for transfer of money till the voting day on May 13.
The CM said Chandrababu Naidu was spreading misinformation on the AP Land Title Act and also on registration of lands, to mislead the farmers. He asked whether Naidu’s son-law and actor Balakrishna and JS chief Pawan Kalyan got original registration deeds, as both of them purchased lands at Rushikonda in Visakhapatnam and at Mangalagiri respectively.
“Both of them got original deeds. There was no truth in the allegations being made by Naidu,” he said.
The Chief Minister announced that nearly nine lakh property registrations were done in the state.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, as the YSRC chief, listed a series of welfare schemes that are being implemented in the state ever since the party formed the government. These benefited women, students, farmers, pensioners and others. A whopping Rs 2.3 lakh crore was transferred to the beneficiaries in the last 59 months,” he said, and claimed credit for fulfilling 99 per cent of the promises his party made in the last elections.
The Chief Minister held the TD’s 2014 manifesto in his hand and read out the series of promises it made like waiver of farm loans worth Rs 87,612 crore, loan waiver for Dwcr women worth Rs 14,205 crore, deposit of Rs 25,000 on birth of every girl child, a sanction of three cents of land and construction of pucca house for each family, sanction of a job to each family and an unemployment stipend of Rs 2,000 a month, setting up of a corpus fund with Rs 10,000 crore for BC Sub Plan and so on.
He asked whether Naidu was able to fulfil even a single of the TD’s manifesto promises during his tenure.
Jagan Mohan Reddy asked the people whether they were ready to be duped again by Naidu, as he came up with a new manifesto now. “I wonder, from where he would get such a huge amount of `1.65 lakh crore per year to fulfil these promises,” the CM said and added that his government was spending `70,000 crore per annum for the welfare schemes.
He called upon the people to support the YSRC in the present polls if they wanted all the welfare schemes to be continued for the next five years and the volunteers to come again and knock at their doors to deliver pensions and other services at the start of every month.
Turning his attention to Pithapuram, Jagan Mohan Reddy asked the people whether Pawan Kalyan would do justice to them if he was elected as an MLA? Would he remain in Pithapuram or rush back to Hyderabad every time he developed a simple cold or cough?
Referring to Pawan Kalyan losing both Bhimavaram and Gajuwaka Assembly segments in the last elections, he said Pawan Kalya picked up a new segment at Pithapuram to contest in the upcoming polls.
Urging the people to support YSRC nominees Vanga Geeta from Pithapuram and Chalamalasetti Sunil for Kakinada LS, Jagan Mohan Reddy promised to make Vanga Geeta a deputy chief minister in his Cabinet. He called upon the people in the three public meetings to cast their vote for YSRC.