Is YSR Congress party an opposition party?! Given the party’s menu of issues from the time it has entered into the State Assembly, both in-side and out-side of the house, it has been fighting over the issues handed over to it by the ruling TDP. There are hardly any issues that the party has picked up on its own and sought an answer from the government.
Initially, it was the TDP government’s Farmers Debit Redemption Scheme on which the YSR Congress party has tried hard to corner the government and tried to earn political dividends. But, somehow, though it was a potential issue after a year and half, the issue is not seen anywhere on the party’s menu.
This was followed with again with another issue of Land Pooling Scheme for the proposed construction of the new state capital Amravati. Though the party could trouble the ruling TDP for a month, it could not keep this issue alive for long, following the government completing polling about 30,000 acres in the Capital Region Development Authority area. And, foundation stone for the new capital city has been done and now it no longer figures on the agenda of the YSR Congress party.
Then, it has taken up the issue of Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project, accusing the government that the project was intended only to earn huge amounts in the form of kick backs. It tried hard to highlight that the project in no way meant to provide water to the Rayalaseema region. Half of the project has been completed, and despite no water has been provided to Rayalaseema region on account of Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project, again the same issue is not seen on the agenda of the YSR Congress Party.
The party having considerable clout in the North Coastal district has also took up on it shoulders opposing the state government’s move to acquire about 5,000 acres of land for the proposed International Airport in Bhogapuram. Even the people in tens and thousands had backed the party’s fight opposing the land acquisition.
Latest on the YSR Congress Party’s men is the government’s move to permit mining of bauxite in the forest areas of Visakhapatnam. Following hue and cry, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had released a white paper on the issue (the information of almost everything in the white paper in freely available in the public domain), which looks more like a degree students term paper, the main opposition party has been seems weighing various options whether to further pursue, or just keep on only opposing and make some noise. Because, the state government has made it clear that it would not go ahead with the mining of bauxite without the consent of the tribal’s in the area.
Given the track record of the YSR Congress party, most of the times and on most of the issues that it had fought were only those handed over to it by the ruling party. As an opposition party hardly it seen doing any home work on its own and coming up with issues bothering the state, in the fields of agriculture, industry, fiscal deficit, education, problems that the state is facing following the bifurcation of the state, employment generation, education and the like.
