The TDP MLAs on Friday made it clear that realising the issues mentioned in the State Reorganisation Act is totally dependent on the State Government. The party MLAs, who were earlier suspended from the Assembly, told media persons that the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues visited New Delhi several times in the past three-and-half years while the Minister for Finance, Mr Buggana Rajendranath Reddy, is permanently staying in the national capital. But they could not raise the matter before the Union Government, the MLA said.
In fact, it is the YSRCP which demanded steel plant for Kadapa but not even a single representation has been submitted to the Centre on this, they pointed out. The State Government has miserably failed to achieve these subjects mentioned in the Reorganisation Act and when the TDP pointed this out on the floor of the House, the ruling party is resorting to counter attacks, they observed.
The State is now witnessing a situation wherein even the Chief Minister, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy, could not get even a single industry to his home district, Kadapa, but the ruling party shamelessly initiated a debate in the Assembly on industrialisation in the State, they maintained. “Except wasting the valuable time of the House, what is the use of such debates,” they asked.
Leave alone a new steel plant for Kadapa, the future of the existing Steel Plant in Visakhapatnam is in question now and the Jagan Government is responsible for such a situation, the MLA felt. Except narrating some cock and bull stories, the ruling dispensation did nothing for the State in the past three-and-half years and passing the buck on Covid to cover-up their failures, the MLAs stated.
They narrated the developmental works undertaken by Mr Chandrababu Naidu as the chief minister of the State and said that the TDP national president has a vision and always strives for the overall development of Andhra Pradesh.
The party MLA, Mr Nimmala Ramanaidu, said that when the TDP members wanted to raise on the floor of the Assembly ceratin issues with regard to women, the poor and the middle-class sections of society, the ruling party members did not cooperate at all. The State Government is imposing heavy taxes on the people and the debt burden on each head in the State is increasing by every passing day. “In fact, the TDP wanted the House proceedings to be in order and we made a special request to the Chair to take up the Question Hour. But the Chair has rejected the adjournment motion submitted by us,” he said.
The power charges have been revised at least seven times and there is no power subsidy for aqua farmers. The prices of essential commodities have been skyrocketing and taxes are being imposed even on scrap. The people are totally opposing such measures and are revolting against the ruling party MLAs when they approach them, he added.
Another TDP MLA, Mr Gorantla Butchiah Chowadary, is of the opinion almost all the industries are moving out of Andhra Pradesh and the YSRCP can not boast of achieving anything in the past three years. Except causing inconvenience to the people by imposing ‘J’ tax on them and subjecting the industrialists to wild threats, the YSRCP could not do anything for the State, he observed.
Companies like the Amar Raja Batteries and the Zuvari Cements, which have been creating employment to lakhs of people, have been forced to shut their doors following which the industrialists are shifting their units out of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Butchaiah Chowdary said.
The pharma companies too have withdrawn their idea of launching their units in the Kakinada SEZ, he said and asked how the Hetero Pharama is allotted licence now. Even the popular Reliance company too has shifted its unit from Andhra Pradesh, he pointed out and said that the mining mafia is ruling the roost in the State now.
Another the TDP Chinarajappa said that Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy is only pushing the State into deep trouble while Mr Chandrababu Naidu took pain to bring severl indistries to the State during his tenure as the chief minister of the State. The State is pasing through much difficult times, the MLAs said.
