Voting for Chandrababu Naidu means giving nod to scrap volunteer system: Jagan Mohan Reddy
VIJAYAWADA : Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday said that TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, if voted to power, would put an end to the volunteer system, discontinue pensions and several other schemes his government is implementing.
“Voting for Naidu is nothing but giving a green signal to scrap the volunteer system. Not just volunteer system, he will put an end to social security pensions and to all other schemes. You have to take this message to each and every household in the State,” Jagan called upon the gathering at the public meeting at Madanapalle. Jagan’s ‘Memanta Siddham’ yatra entered the undivided Chittoor district and received a grand welcome from the party cadre and locals.
Jagan said Naidu must be kept out of power if the welfare schemes being implemented by his government for the past five years have to continue.
“Every individual should keep one thing in mind. I have pressed buttons 130 times (for depositing cash in the accounts of the beneficiaries). You have to press two buttons on Fan symbol. You are not electing just an MP or an MLA but your and your children’s future,” he said.
Lashing out at Naidu, Jagan said the TDP chief and his aides have complained to the Election Commission of India (ECI) three days back and got delivery of pensions at the doorstep of the beneficiaries by the volunteers stopped.
“The volunteers used to distribute pensions on the first of every month with a big smile on their face,” he pointed out.
TDP chief reminds people of scams & not schemes, quips Jagan
“Naidu and his men have began a vicious programme to cancel the volunteer system without thinking that it is the people who would be harmed,” Jagan said.
The YSRC chief went on to add that Naidu had in the past opposed English medium in government-run schools, giving house site pattas to women and now blocking the pension being given to elderly people.
Jagan said time has come to end the political career of all those who went to the court and filed cases against the allotment of houses for the poor. “They (Naidu and his aides) are against SCs and BCs,” he alleged. Jagan said welfare schemes will continue only if people repose their faith in the YSRC.
“Never before in the history of the State has anyone distributed Rs 2.7 lakh crore without any discrimination nor any corruption. If we look at non-DBT, it is about Rs 1 lakh crore, which means a total of Rs 3.7 lakh crore. We have a track record of doing work without bribes,” he said.
Contrary to it, Jagan said the moment one takes the name of Naidu, they will be reminded of scams not schemes. “Whereas when anyone takes my name, they are reminded about village secretariats, volunteers, pension, good governance, village clinics, Aarogya Suraksha, English medium.”
Jagan said the coming election is a war between a gang of crafty alliances whose foundation is lies and deceit and him. “The leader of the gang is Naidu. Like Pasupupathi who came from the grave in the movie Arundhati, Naidu, a Pasupu (yellow) Pati, rose after five years to seek power. This Pasupu Pati wants the CM’s chair to suck the blood of the poor.”