Observing that the 2024 elections to the State Assembly are a battle between five crore people of Andhra Pradesh and a dictator, former chief minister and TDP president, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, on Thursday felt that the future of the State depends on the outcome of these polls.
Chandrababu Naidu told media persons at the party headquarters that in the coming elections it is not individuals or the parties that should win but the State should become victorious. The TDP supremo felt that the fear of losing power is haunting Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, and thus he is changing the sitting candidates from their respective segments.
Even if the YSRCP changes all the 150 sitting MLAs, the party is not going to win the coming polls as the people are ready to send Mr Jagan home, he remarked. There is no failure Chief minister like Jagan in the history of the State, he said.
The Michaung cyclone caused heavy damage to the State, particularly to the farming community, he said, adding that standing crops in 22 lakh acres in 15 districts were totally damaged. Despite knowing pretty well in advance the State Government adopted a negligent attitude, Chandrababu said and felt that had some preventive measures been taken the damage would have been controlled to a large extent.
Chandrababu said that the State generally experiences cyclone effect in November and December months while the Godavari floods begin much before and the water will be flown into Polavaram. After all the reservoirs are full in the upland area, the water will reach the Krishna river, he pointed out. After observing all this Pattiseema was constructed so that water can be supplied to the farmers so that they will not incur any loss before November, he said.
“This Chief Minister has turned such a useful Pattiseema for four years for the sole reason that I have completed the project,” Chandrababu noted. He is forced to operate Pattiseema this year as people are mounting pressure on him but the damage is already done, he felt.
The tenant farmers are the worst-hit in this cyclone, he said, adding that the TDP leaders and the cadre assessed the ground situation and submitted reports after talking to the local farmers. Pointing out that the TDP demanded building of houses for those who lost their shelter in this cyclone, Chandrababu asked why this Government was not responding to such demands even from the public.
“The coming government is a farmers welfare government and immediately after coming to power justice will be done to the farming community,” he stated. Jagan has asked for a chance and the people have given him that chance which has become a curse on them and thus there is a total transformation among the people, he remarked.
“I have never seen such a Government which has faced such an anti-incumbency and the people are eagerly waiting for the elections to get rid of this dispensation,” he said. Andhra Pradesh is number one in unemployment and the educated youth is in total desperation, he said.
Chandrababu Naidu is of the opinion that the fear of losing power is haunting the Chief Minister and that is the reason he has changed 11 sitting MLAs though till the other day he claimed why not 175. Majority of those who have been shifted are Backward Classes (BCs) and Dalits, he said and asked whether Mr Jagan will shift from Pulivendula.
