YSR Congress today alleged that the attempts were being made to benefit ‘Heritage Foods’ from the just announced the Buttermilk supply scheme.
Andhra Pradesh cabinet, which met yesterday, took a decision to supply buttermilk to the people at hospitals, markets, bus-stops, malls and railway stations to beat the heat. The government had also decided to release Rs 39 crore , Rs 3 crore for each district, for the scheme. The opposition party smelt a rat in the program and alleged that it was nothing but ‘Help Heritage Foods” program. Heritage Foods is a company owned by family members of chief minister Naidu.
“The cabinet deciding to sanction Rs 200 crores for carrying out repairs to water sources in mid-summer shows its lack of foresight and reveals its interest in awarding contracts to its favored few. The sanction of Rs 39 cores for supplying buttermilk and drinking water sachets is only to benefit the Heritage Foods, owned by the family members of Chandrababu Naidu,” alleged party spokesperson Ambati Ramababu.
The party sees commercialization of natural calamities in the belated announcement of the relief measures.
Ramababu also alleged that Naidu’s family had also got benefited from the Chandranna Kanukalu scheme. Drought relief spending authorized by the cabinet was an attempt to help the CM’s family get profited and award the contracts to his coterie.
“On the face of it, these repairs to RWS schemes look aimed at reviving the defunct schemes; in effect they are a move to benefit the ruling party’s contractors. Isn’t it ridiculous to try to dig a well when people are dying of thirst. The repairs should have been taken up much before the onset of summer,” he said.
‘Had the government taken a decision to draw 10 TMC of water from Krishna River there would not have been any water shortage of this magnitude. Even the capital region is also facing acute drinking water shortage. Water is being supplied once in three days in 29 villages,” he said.
According to Rambabu, chief minister Naidu is not able to insist on the full share of water from Krishna because he is afraid of KCR in the backdrop of cash for vote scam.
” Entire state is suffering from water shortage because of Naidu’s despicable acts,” he said.
