Andhra Pradesh Parirakshana Samithi leader Kolikapudi Srinivasa Rao, who has been championing the cause of Amaravati, said that chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy took the state back to four decades. He said that the government had not developed the state in the last four-and-a-half years. Not a single development work was taken up in the state during Jagan’s regime, he said.
Speaking to media persons in Amaravati on Saturday, Srinivas said that every Telugu person stood by the Amaravati farmers. Telugu people living in other countries have also supported Amaravati in the last four-and-a-half years.
Srinivasa Rao said that only four months were left for this government to go and the Amaravati development to start. The next government would develop Amaravati as a global city, he said. He also maintained that people in the state were waiting for the elections to send Jagan Mohan Reddy back to jail.
“The leader who started Amaravati will only develop it after the elections,” he said. He also alleged that the government was sending away the software companies from the state. He said that the government had asked the IT companies to vacate the millennium towers in Visakhapatnam. The building is now being used for the government departments, he said.
He said that Jagan did not win the 2019 general election on his strength. Jagan won the election on our weakness, he said. He wanted the people to come together and open their eyes to the backwardness in the state.
“Roads were not laid. Buildings were not constructed. Companies were not invited. There is nothing in the state,” Srinivasa Rao said.
He called upon the people of SC, ST, BC and Minorities to rally behind Chandrababu Naidu in the coming elections if they wanted the state to be developed. He said that people of these sections are slowly realising what they have lost by voting for Jagan Mohan Reddy in the last elections.
He asserted that people would not commit the same mistake for the second time. He maintained that Chandrababu Naidu would become the chief minister and would develop the state including Amaravati as the capital.
