Jagan woos weavers with slew of promises

Education to take precedence under Amma Odi scheme l To enter Kiran turf today

Chittoor: YSRCP president and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy announced a slew of welfare schemes for youth, women and weavers.

Addressing road shows and largely attended meetings in Madanapalli constituency on Monday, he said that his party would introduce `Amma odi', a newly conceptualised scheme for providing education to poor children, if they were voted to power.

Highlighting the features of the scheme, he said that Rs 500 would be deposited in the bank account of the child's mother. This would continue till the child completes his/her education.

The YSRCP would also provide free education to the meritorious and needy students, who pursue engineering and medical streams. He said that old-age pension would be enhanced to Rs 750 from the present Rs 200.

Assailing the Congress government and holding it responsible for the spate of suicides by distraught farmers and weavers, he lamented that the government had failed to provide succour to the famished families.

Recalling that his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (like NTR earlier) had introduced a separate budget for weavers and also waived their loans to the tune of Rs 320 crore to ease them out of the debt burden, he said he would accord top priority to the weavers’ community.

He said that unlike YSR who had done everything to uplift the downtrodden, the Congress and the TDP were vying with each other with their band of divisive politics and cheating people of their due share of benefits.

Jaganmohan Reddy cautioned that the proposed bifurcation would adversely impact the youth. He appealed to the people not to fall prey to the machinations of the Congress and TDP leaders by seeing through their doublespeak.

Apart from the road shows and meetings, he visited `Chenetha Nagar' in Neerugatturvaripalli where he interacted with the weavers. He unveiled the statue of YS Rajasekhara Reddy in Sarkarthopu village.

The YSRCP chief also visited the family of party activist Venkataramaiah, who died of shock after YSR’s tragic death, in Madanapalli town and spent some time with the family members. He will address a series of meetings in Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Piler constituency on Tuesday.