After chief minister Naidu’s Rayalaseema tour and two-day TDP meeting at Tirupati, the opposition leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy also seems to be thinking of the region, to prevent the issue being hijacked by the ruling party.
For the first time the YSRC President on Saturday held a meeting with Kurnool district leaders and reviewed the situation which centered around neglect of the region on all fronts from irrigation to infrastructure development. The meeting took place in the backdrop of local farmers’ agitation against government attempt to take their land in the name of setting up of industries, chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s tour to the district. Alluding to YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s activities, Naidu said some leader were creating problems for the development of the region and declared that he would not be distracted by such forces.
Against this backdrop Jagan discussed the district politics and developmental activities with party leaders Budda Rajasekhar Reddy, S V Mohan Reddy (MLC) and Mani Gandhi (MLA) and Bhuma Nagireddy, Gouru Charita Reddy, Bugga Rajendranath, Sai Prasad, party general secretary Vijay Sai Reddy and others.
Talking to media later the leaders said Rayalaseema was not getting any benefit from TDP government. “The irrigation works were not taken up and the much touted Pattiseema did not release a drop of water to the arid Rayalseema region,” they said. ‘TDP has not been implementing any of the promises it made to the region and the welfare schemes are not reaching out to the people. We will strengthen the party from grass root level and highlight the failures of the state government in the days to come,” party leaders Budda Rajasekhar Reddy and SV Mohan Reddy said.
‘Balanced development is what is needed at this hour and the four districts of Rayalseema and three north coastal districts were declared as backward and the State did not take up a single project in the seven districts and the development has been concentrated only in one region which is not a good sign. We demand the decentralization of development,’ they said.
Similar meetings with leaders from other districts also are expected in the next few days.
