CM reneging on promises: Jagan

Visakhapatnam: YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy rallied forces against the TDP government by leading Maha Dharna in front of the Collectorate here on Friday. He called for protests across the State to expose “doublespeak” of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu over waiver of farm and DWCRA loans.

• YSRCP chief holds ‘Maha Dharna’ at Vizag
• Protests across AP over CM’s ‘doublespeak’
• No clarity by Naidu on waiver of farmers’ loans
• Govt also keeping mum on DWCRA loans

Addressing a huge gathering at the protest, Jagan said the announcement made by the Chief Minister on the eve of “Maha Dharna” called by the YSRCP” failed to give clarity on how the State was going about to write off farm and DWCRA loans.

“The people voted TDP to power, believing that Naidu would deliver on his poll promises to write off loans of farmers and DWCRA women. He also promised that he would increase social security pensions, provision of one job in each household, Rs 2,000 unemployment allowance,” he recalled.

But, Naidu had not delivered on even a single promise. The government was boasting of increasing the social security pensions by fivefold but at the same time framed the rules in such a tight-fisted manner that made eligible to secure benefits “hundred times difficult. He lambasted the government for failing to pay compensation to those displaced by the Hudhud cyclone.

“Instead of supporting the farmers by extending loan waiver and with declaring of MSP for paddy, the government is threatening the farmers with land acquisition if they fail to handover lands for the construction of capital city, he said. He assured the farmers farmers in Thulluru, Tadepalli and Mangalagiri mandals in Guntur district that he would stand by them in “this hour of great travail.”