The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) staged protest demonstrations across Andhra Pradesh demanding that the State Government supply rice for all the white ration card holders in the State.
Raising slogans like “Povali Jagan, Ravali Chandrababu”, the TDP activists said that the Jagan Mohan Reddy Government, which has become a bane for the people should be thrown out of power immediately. The demonstrators submitted memoranda to the local tehsildars demanding free ration supply to all the white card holders as per the norms laid down under National Food Security Act.
The protestors said that the free rice being supplied by the Centre for all the eligible white ration card holders is being misused by the Chief Minister, Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. The rice is being recycled through his henchmen and is being rechanneled to foreign countries through ports, they said.
During the TDP regime, the party strived to see to it that every poor family got ration rice. During the Carona pandemic, the Union Government launched the Gareeb Kalyan Yojana scheme to supply rice to all the needy but Mr Jagan Reddy is diverting even this quota of rice thus looting the poor, the TDP activists felt.
The YSRCP gang, in the past three years, looted the State with 5 metric tonnes of rice worth Rs 5,000 cr supplied by the Centre, they said stating that ration cards were allotted to those ineligible families.
The TDP politburo members, Mrs Vangalapudi Anitha, Mr Nimakayala China Rajappa and Mr Kalva Srinivasulu , party MPs, MLAs and other senior leaders actively took part in the agitational programme.
