Chinta for decentralisation of state development

Anantapur: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Chinta Mohan has accused Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of centralising development around Amaravati and committing the same mistake done in the past by erstwhile chief ministers.

In the context, he demanded that the AP High Court should be established in the Rayalaseema region to prove the government's commitment towards region development. Addressing a press conference at Hotel Masineni Grand here on Thursday, Chinta Mohan regretted that the focus of government is on Amaravati region development and all energies are being channelised towards Amaravati development on the lines of twin cities development in the united AP state.

He alleged that Polavaram project is mired in corruption and the project is being used to generate kickbacks. During the past 60 years and even now the state was ruled by only two social groups and justice was not done to any other communities be it BCs and forward communities. He maintained that AP is the state where two communities enjoyed political power unlike 25 other states where at least once there was a BC chief minister.

The BCs, who dominated in the AP state were only used by the power groups to further their political ends. He predicted that Congress will bounce back to power at the centre as the BJP is now on a downward trend going by the recent election results in Gujarat.

The Congress would further pick up by 2019 and emerge as the main claimant for power in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He opined that in AP state an alternative to TDP should emerge and the opposition leader Jaganmohan Reddy is unable to rise to the occasion as he is facing several corruption cases.