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AMARAVATI: TDP former Minister Nakka Ananda Babu on Tuesday expressed concern that just like in Sri Lanka, the people of Andhra Pradesh were also becoming helpless victims of limitless debts, rising prices and unprecedented power cuts.
Ananda Babu said Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s visit current visit to Delhi was aimed at favours regarding his assets cases and Viveka murder but not for the benefit of the State.
Addressing a press conference here, the TDP leader said the reasons for the crisis faced by people of both Sri Lanka and AP were one and the same. The mismanagement, corruption and policies of the rulers had made the lives of ordinary citizens very difficult.
Ananda Babu pointed out that the Sri Lankan people were now running away to other countries to escape price rise and unemployment. In AP too, lakhs of construction workers, professionals and jobless youth migrated to other States. One wrong policy on sand alone had caused a livelihood crisis for 30 lakh construction workers and those in allied activities.
The TDP leader said the Sri Lanka Government was implementing power cuts for 12 to 16 hours. The AP regime was also cutting power for 8 to 10 hours. Jagan Mohan Reddy increased current charges over 7 times. Moreover, he shut down all sources of revenue for the State for the sake of his own personal benefit.
Ananda Babu deplored that Sri Lanka was suffering severely from debts and steep fall in revenue. Jagan Reddy has been closing down all areas of revenue generation while bringing massive loans. The AP State was heading towards a greater economic calamity than even Sri Lanka.
The TDP leader pointed out how the Sri Lankans surrounded the residence of their country’s president itself to express their agony and anguish. Jagan Mohan Reddy was not even given such a chance in AP. The Dalits, Backward Classes, farmers, youth, women, employees and all sections were ready to surround the house of the Chief Minister. But, Jagan Reddy was hiding behind closed walls with the help of section 144 in the vicinity of his Tadepalli residence.
Ananda Babu termed it as shameless on the part of the Chief Minister to say that his Government would not be able to fulfill welfare promises without the liquor income.
