VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as YSRC president gave final touches to release the much-awaited YSRC election 2024 manifesto, continuing the present welfare schemes with reforms, skill development, and loan waiver to attract the masses in the present elections.
It may be recalled that his father Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy announced Aarogyasri, loan waiver and other sops during the 2004 elections but he did not announce new sops or schemes in the 2009 elections and won the polls and continued the implementation of welfare schemes. Similarly, now Jagan Mohan Reddy is following the footsteps of his father. He is planning to continue 90 per cent of the Navaratnalu welfare schemes and is likely to introduce new sops in the rest of the 10 per cent category.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, who vastly toured the state under Memantha Siddham Bus Yatra, took a break on Friday and is readying to start Siddham 3.0 yatra on April 28, by intensifying the 2024 election campaign.
The party sources said that Jagan Mohan Reddy will release the manifesto on Saturday and start campaigning about the manifesto in the Siddham 3.0 meetings from April 28.
Jagan Mohan Reddy held long discussions with key leaders including YSRC general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy in the CM’s Camp Office at Tadepalli on Friday and affirmed that he will announce only schemes that are possible to implement.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, during the bus yatra, had collected the opinions and wishes of the public to accordingly craft the manifesto. He interacted with various groups in six special sessions during 22 days of the bus yara which covered 86 Assembly constituencies of 23 districts.
Further last week, he met senior party leaders in Visakhapatnam and collected their opinions about the manifesto. He affirmed that there was no use in giving impossible promises hence he would announce only implementable welfare schemes and further affirmed that 90 per cent of the welfare schemes will be continued in better ways.
The sources said that the CM is focussing on women, youth and farmers, hence sops or schemes related to them will be announced under the manifesto. Already, 90 per cent of promises given under the Navaratnalu 2019 YSRC Election Manifesto were fulfilled. Hence, this time, there would be a better version as Navaratnalu 2.0.
YSRC leaders quoting the promises of Congress and Telugu Desam-BJP-Jana Sena alliance including free RTC bus travel and loan waiver urged Jagan Mohan Reddy to include better schemes than what the Opposition parties did in their manifesto. But Jagan Mohan eddy reportedly favoured caution.
The sources said there are chances of schemes meant for women, youth and farmers in the 2024 YSRC manifesto but there would be no free RTC bus travel scheme. There would be a chance of offering a few cooking gas refills to lure women.
YSRC general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy said that Jagan Mohan Reddy has fulfilled 99 per cent of his election promises despite the two years of the Corona crisis He said that the 2024 manifesto would be people-friendly and implementable.
