The YCP leaders made tall claims about CM Jaganmohan Reddy’s record in giving over 50 per cent ministries to SC, SY, BC and Minorities. But a close look reveals how Jagan carried out his social engineering without giving it a real human touch. He has carefully avoided giving real power that would go to respective ministers because of their positions.
SC MLA Mekathoti Sucharita is given Home Ministry making her the first woman in AP to get the post. But she is not made the Deputy Chief Minister. Logically speaking, Sucharita should get DCM post because her Home Ministry is the second most powerful post after the CM post. It’s so in any state or at the Centre. In the previous Chandrababu Naidu government, then home minister Nimmakayala China Rajappa was DCM. In the Modi ministry at the Centre, Amit Shah got the second most powerful post which is Home Ministry.
In AP, Jagan gave the DCM post to K. Narayana Swamy in SC reservation. Analysts say that Jagan has taken all the steps to empower the weaker sections while at the same time denying full powers they deserve by virtue of their posts.
