Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on
Thursday exhorted party workers to expose the ‘corrupt' YSRC and the
‘inept' Congress. He called upon the party cadre to initiate a public
debate by highlighting the contents of the charge sheet filed in the
illegal assets case against YSRC chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and urge
the people to ponder before voting.
Holding a
workshop for the party workers in Ongole, where a by-election will be
held along with 17 other Assembly constituencies and for one Lok Sabha
seat on June 12, he alleged that “the YSRC chief has amassed wealth
through illegal means during the YSR regime and patronised mafia dons
like Bhanu Kiran and Pulivendula Krishna (Mangali Krishna).”
“You
should reach every voter and explain to them the grave threat to
democratic polity.” He said there was no governance in the State as the
Congress lacked proper leadership resulting in suffering to all sections
of people because of skyrocketing prices of essential commodities and
heavy dose of taxes.
“I have never seen such a worst
situation since Independence with so many scams, one after the other
coming to the fore,” he contended.
He said, “the
ruling Congress cannot shirk responsibility for the wrong-doings by the
YSRC chief.”. The TDP had been exposing alleged ‘money laundering' by
the late YSR even before the 2009 general election and brought out book
‘raja of corruption'.
It was wrong to project the
freezing of accounts of media firms of the YSRC chief as attack on press
freedom. “Can Dawood Ibrahim or Bhanu Kiran be allowed to start a daily
and go scot free,” he asked.
Investors were turning
away from the State faced with acute shortage of power leading to
closure of small-scale units and retrenchment of employees, he said,
adding Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy had belied the hopes of youth
after promising to create 15 lakh jobs in his rule.
Sops promised
Describing
the present round of bypolls as a ‘stepping stone' for the party's
victory in 2014 general election, he promised, among other things,
sub-plan for BCs similar to the one for SCs, three cents of land for
each poor family, Rs. 1 lakh for house construction, Rs. 1,000
unemployment dole for youth, political reservation for Minorities and
socio-economic and political empowerment of women. He held roadshow
along with party Ongole nominee Damacharla Janardhan and State farmers'
wing president Karnam Balarama Krishnamurthy.
From HINDU
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