-CRDA and farmers agreement irrevocable
-People supreme but not Jagan Reddy
-151 YCP MLAs ruling like 101 Kauravas
-Final victory to dharma and justice
AMARAVATI: TDP National President and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday strongly criticised Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for ‘attributing motives’ to the court instead of implementing its order on Amaravati Capital.
Naidu advised the Chief Minister to resign and seek fresh mandate on his 3 Capitals if he was keen on his dangerous 3-card game with the people. The High Court intervened just because the AP Government deliberately violated the ‘irrevocable agreement’ that it along with the CRDA reached with the Amaravati farmers.
Addressing a press conference at the party central office here, the TDP chief said Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disrespectful comments on the court in the Assembly today marked a new peak in three years of ‘destructive politics’. The courts had a bounden duty to uphold the fundamental rights of farmers, who gave 34,000 acres of their ancestral lands for developing Capital for all 5 crore people of the State.
Naidu termed it as unfortunate that CM Jagan had no idea about the court being an independent entity under the constitution. Just like the legislature and the executive, the judiciary and the media were also two other pillars of the constitution of India. If the YCP Government had any reservations against the HC order, it could have approached the Supreme Court whose judgements would be final.
Chandrababu Naidu said the Jagan Reddy regime could even file clarification petitions in the High Court itself. The directions for completing the Capital works within 3 months should not have been described as ‘impractical’. The terms and conditions in the agreement had clearly laid down the plan for handing developed plots in return for the lands given by the farmers.
Naidu slammed the CM for practising ‘treacherous politics’ from the beginning on the issue of developing Amaravati. Prior to the 2019 elections, Jagan and his party MLAs voted in favour of Amaravati as the sole Capital. During the election campaign, his party contesting candidates spoke repeatedly about the house constructed by Jagan in Amaravati as an indication of his commitment to the Capital City. But, he reversed his policy immediately after coming to power.
The TDP chief reminded the Chief Minister that he was not supreme. It was the people who were supreme and it was they who elected him as their trustee but not as their dictator to oppress them. Jagan Reddy could not run the State as per his whims and fancies just because he had 151 MLAs. The Kauravas were 101 but they had to face defeat in the hands of dharma and justice.
