The state BJP heads of the two Telugu speaking states have turned the heat on the respective governments in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
In Telangana, a BJP delegation led by state party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar called on governor Tamilisai Soundarajan on Monday at the Raj Bhavan and complained that the KCR government had failed to chalk out and implement any concrete plan to combat the deadly virus. The BJP president pointed out to the governor that the biggest issue in front of the state government was to tackle the problem faced by the state farmers and the issue of migrant workers. While the state government had asked the farmers not to come to the towns with their produce but wait in their respective villages for procurement by the agriculture authorities, it had failed to make sincere efforts to fulfill its assurance that the entire produce of the farmers would be procured at their door step, the BJP president informed the governor.
Voicing the concerns of the state farmers, the BJP president said the farming community was still awaiting the delivery of tall promises made by Chief Minister K Chandraskehara Rao that the government will buy every single grain of the yield in the state. The BJP leader also through the governor demanded that the government expedite purchase process as the farmers cannot hold on
to their produce far too long.
In Andhra Pradesh, state BJP president Kanna Laxminarayana on Monday met Governor Bishwabhushan Harichandan and submitted three letters over the failure of the government on taking timely action in containing the spread of the virus. He said the government had undermined the severity of the pandemic and underreporting the cases in Andhra Pradesh. Further, Kanna in another letter appealed to the Governor to cancel the elections to local bodies considering the violence perpetrated by the YSRCP leaders against the opposition leaders. In the letter, Kanna also brought to the notice of the Governor that the YSRCP leaders forcibly prevented the Opposition leaders from filing nominations right in the presence of the police. In view of this, the governor should cancel the elections to the local bodies.
In the past, state BJP president shot off a letter to Jagan demanding that the government come out with a White Paper on how many testing kits were currently available, how many isolation wards were set up, the number of quarantine facilities in the state. He said there are trust issues with the people raising doubts over the number of tests being conducted and the availability of testing kits.
