It is known news that Jagan recently made a statement about Chandra Babu led TDP government showing nepotism during promotions in police department as he told, “Out of 37 Circle inspectors promoted to DSPs, 35 belong to Kamma community (that Chandra babu belongs to)”. His comments went viral especially given the fact he made these comments not in AP or Hyderabad but at Election commission office in Delhi. Jagan’s comments actually got backfire in social media and even those who strongly believe existence of nepotism in TDP government also didn’t buy the arguments of Jagan. The main reason is , as always, Jagan fumbled while handling the statistics this time too.
Click here: Tweet – T360 factcheck on YS Jagan ‘Kamma’ claims
Hollowness of Jagan’s claims But caste bias exists in TDP government:
Janasena spokesperson Addepalli Sridhar responded differently on this issue. The way he responded on Jagan’s statement exposed the hollowness in Jagan’s statements and thereby his lack of knowledge and at the same time proved that nepotism does exist in TDP government. Sridhar ridiculed Jagan’s statements for lack of factual content in that and wondered who is giving him all these wrong data. He concluded that Jagan’s statement of “35 out of 37 policemen who got promoted are Kammas” is wrong. At the same time he came up with authentic data about nepotism and caste bias existing in TDP government. He read out the data of university vice-chancellors, Deans and the officials working in CMO (Chief minister office) and confirmed the caste bias shown by TDP. He did this in a TV debate and the other participants from TDP and YSRCP who participated in the same debate could not counter him. Given the fact that, in recent times, Sridhar has put TDP and YSRCP spokespersons in embarrassment by countering their arguments with proper data, now these TDP and YSRCP spokespersons didn’t even dare to comment his data is wrong.
Similar bias shown by Jagan too:
However, netizens are commenting that late YSR or even Jagan also encouraged people belonging to the same caste as theirs in party posts and government posts (in case of YSR). YSRCP, till date, got chance to nominate two candidates to Rajya Sabha and it sent Reddy candidates both times.
Click here: Rajya Sabha nominations & Caste equations – Part2
Moreover, while Jagan making the comments about the caste bias, beside him was Buggana Rajendra Reddy , and he was seen helping Jagan on these numbers. It would not be out of the context if we recall that Jyothula Nehru was denied PAC post by Jagan and the same was given to Buggana rajendra Reddy and at the time of leaving, Nehru made similar caste bias comments on Jagan.
