VIJAYAWADA: Asserting that May 13 will decide the fate of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday appealed to the people to think about what the TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu “had not done” for them and the State when he served as chief minister for 14 years and what he (Jagan) had done in the last 59 months.
He said: “If you believe in Naidu, it will be like awakening Chandramukhi to suck your blood. It will be like putting your head in the mouth of Anaconda.”
Addressing election rallies at Repalle in Bapatla district, Macherla in Palnadu district, and Machilipatnam in Krishna district, he said a vote for TDP in the next week’s election will put a full stop to the plethora of welfare schemes, while choosing YSRC will help continue the saga.
Elucidating that he planted saplings of happiness in every household, took care of their welfare, and development of the State five years ago, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy asserted that they will grow into most remarkable trees and bear fruits in the next 10 to 15 years, elevating the lives of the poor on a very big scale.
YSRC fulfilled 99.5% of election promises in last 59 months: Jagan
Likening himself to a committed farmer, he said that the people had given him the responsibility of cultivating the agricultural field known as Andhra Pradesh five years ago and he sowed a slew of welfare schemes and reforms in the education, administrative, and medical health sectors.
He said that the ensuing elections are not just meant for electing MLAs and MPs, but they will also decide the people’s future for the next five years. “The YSRC has fulfilled 99.5% of its election promises and implemented various welfare schemes in the last 59 months, while Chandrababu Naidu dumped his manifesto after winning the elections in the past.”
Jagan said that his government has disbursed `2.70 lakh crore through DBT under various welfare schemes and delivered social security pensions at the doorstep through the volunteer system, empowered women, farmers, and self-employed persons, besides taking healthcare to the doorstep of people. He further said his government created 2.31 lakh government jobs and distributed 31 lakh house site pattas, besides constructing 22 lakh houses for weaker sections.
The YSRC president listed out various reforms introduced by his government in education and health sectors, revamping government schools with better infrastructure, introducing English medium, bilingual textbooks, implementing Amma Vodi, Vidya Deevena, Vidya Kanuka, digitalisation of classrooms, introduction of IB and CBSE syllabus, village clinics, family doctor, increasing 108, 104 services.
Jagan lambasted the TDP chief and his friendly media for their disinformation campaign on key issues, unmindful of the fact that it destroys the stature of the State.
On the disinformation campaign launched against the AP Land Titling Act by the TDP through phone calls and messages, he said that even TDP MLA Payyavula Keshav highlighted the importance of the Act in the Assembly and the good it would do for the landholders.
Elaborating, Jagan said the Act was meant to give a guarantee of dispute-free ownership of land to the landholders by updating records, mutations, and subdivisions, and in the event of disputes, the owners would be paid compensation and insurance.
“My government initiated resurvey after 100 years to set right the records and save time and money to the landholders who are suffering from litigations,” he clarified, adding that the resurvey, being undertaken by nearly 15,000 surveyors, has already been completed in 6000 villages and would be completed in the next two years in the rest of the revenue villages.
