AP’s ruling alliance will not split: Lokesh

Kakinada:Education Minister Nara Lokesh has made it clear that there will be no misfire, cross fire and divorce in the present alliance government.

Former chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was working hard to break the alliance with his “psycho” behavior, Lokesh said on Monday.

He called upon the alliance leaders and cadres from booth level to national level to be vigilant and face such “psycho” attacks.

Lokesh along with deputy Speaker and Undi MLA Raghu Ramakrishnam Raju toured Undi constituency and participated in several development activities. He went to the house of Union minister of state for Heavy Industries and Steel, Srinivasa Varma, who lost his father last month, and consoled him.

The education minister told some of the alliance leaders that they should not give an opportunity to the YSRC for criticisms based on their conspiracies.

Prior to this, Lokesh inaugurated the statue of the industrial tycoon Ratan Tata at Peda Amiram village near Bhimavaram in West Godavari district and the renovated Zilla Parishad High School. He said the state government would set up a People’s Ratan Tata Innovation Hub to provide better networking to the youth.

Praising Ratan Tata, Lokesh said that when the Basava Tarakam Cancer Institute was set up with an intention of having world-class treatment facility in Hyderabad, Ratan Tata donated `25 crore to it in 1992. During the Hud-Hud cyclone that devastated Visakhapatnam city, the Tata Trust CEO raised `3 crore in 30 seconds, soon after he (Lokesh) phoned him.

Lokesh said that the alliance government aimed at instilling moral values in children. To achieve this task, the government appointed the spiritual speaker Chaganti Koteswara Rao as the adviser for Moral Values and Skills to the government.

He said the government would prepare special lessons under Koteswara Rao’s direction.

He also said that the government has decided to remove other tasks from teachers and also useless educational apps. Teachers should only teach, not waste their time in the name of apps, he said.

Lokesh said that the government has distributed Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vidyardhi Mitra kits worth `944 crore to students free of cost