Lokesh challenges Jagan for open debate

Hyderabad: Sending strong signals that he would foray into active politics soon, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh on Wednesday challenged the YSRCP president YS Jaganmohan Reddy to come for an open debate on the developmental activities that were taken up by the TDP government led by Naidu and the Congress government during the regime of YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Participating in a training camp organised for the activists of the TNSF (Telugu Nadu Students Federation), at NTR Trust Bhavan on Wednesday, Lokesh said the State had witnessed all round development during TDP rule. The credit of transforming Hyderabad into a city of international standards goes to Naidu. Even the energy sector was streamlined by brining reforms which ultimately helped to farmers and industrialists, he said.

Alleging that the YSR family had plundered the State during Rajasekhara Reddy’s regime, he said Jagan needs to explain how he had become the third highest income tax payee in the country in nine years.