YSRCP President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, MP, on Saturday
sought people's support in the June 12 by-elections for the MLAs who had
“sacrificed their posts for the sake of farmers and the poor and stood
for clean politics.”
He expressed dissatisfaction over the ‘improper' implementation of welfare schemes launched during the erstwhile YSR regime.
“Knowing
fully well that they would be disqualified they had voted in support of
the motion of no confidence in the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government. I
salute the 17 MLAs who stood for values in politics and sacrificed their
posts,” he said while addressing a series of meetings in support of
former Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, the party candidate for the
Ongole Assembly seat. “Their sacrifice has come at a time when most of
the MLAs and MPs refuse to step down during the middle of their terms
and more so for the cause of the poor and peasants,” he said.
He
said farmers were in dire straits and many of them were forced to
commit suicide with no remunerative price for their produce, forcing
them to go for crop holiday in more than one lakh acres of land. Farmers
were not even in a position to pay labourers.
The
farm labourers were not better off as were students and their parents.
While labourers got only Rs. 60 to Rs. 70 as daily wage in view of
change in work measurement norms under the MGNREGS, the students faced
uncertainty over fee reimbursement, he lamented.
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