While chief minister Chandrababu Naidu is triumphant over his achievement in attracting Rs 6 lakh crore investment with an employment potential of 10 lakh jobs, Opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy says this is a false claim and bandied about only to contain the resentment among the lakhs of youth of the state.
Naidu and TDP celebrated Vizag Partnership Summit as a milestone in the development of the state. Riding on the wave of success of Vizag summit -, Naidu held negotiations with CEOs of more than a dozen global companies at Davos. He returned home from World Economic Forum meeting with much more enthusiasm.
The opposition YSRC leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on the other hand organized a ‘Yuva Bheri at Kakinada on January 27, to show how deep the resentment among the youth of the state.
The meeting presented a painful contrast with Naidu’s rosy picture. Though the Yuva Bheri ( War bugle of youth) meeting was meant to prepare the youth for the party’s fight for special category status for Andhra Pradesh, it unwittingly highlighted the gravity of the problem of unemployment among the youth.
The youth present in the meeting revealed how they had been spending anxious moment waiting for a notification by APPSE to fill various vacancies in the government. Among the students were youth waiting for jobs of police constables, sub inspectors, teachers, clerks etc. It was evident from Jagan’s interaction with students that they had been waiting for the notification for over five years. They said their hopes of getting a job had been dashed . Jaganmohan Reddy sought to divert the the resentment to special category status which he said alone could address the issue.
He sought to prove that chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s claim of Rs 6 lakh crore investment and 10 lakh jobs was a myth. Chandrababu, he said, instead fulfilling his promise of providing a job for every family or Rs 2000 as unemployment allowance, was planning to drastically cut the jobs.
Painting a dismal picture of employment situation in Andhra Pradesh, Jagan said TDP government had removed 35,000 field assistants, 6000 Arogya Mitra volunteers. Now, in the name of cluster schools the government was planning to cut the staff in schools as well, he said. “At the time of division it was estimated that there were about 1.42 lakh jobs. It is nearly 20 months since Naidu assumed office, not a single job has been created,” he said.
He ridiculed Naidu for chasing investors with concessions and said investors would come calling once AP had status category status. Citing the example of Uttarakhand, Jagan said as a result of special category status the hill-state attracted 2000 industries with a 490 % job growth.
The YSRC president urged the students to join his fight for Special Category Status as he alone could not achieve this.
