Deputy CM post not needed to me: Lokesh

Maintaining that every promise he made to people during his padayatra are being fulfilled one after another, he said the NDA government will implement all its poll promises .
HRD Minister Nara Lokesh
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VIJAYAWADA: Putting an end to the ongoing political debate over his elevation to the Deputy Chief Minister post, HRD Minister Nara Lokesh made it clear that he has no such aspirations.

“I will continue to work as a TDP activist, and the Deputy CM post is not needed to me,” Lokesh said, while speaking to media in Vizag on Monday.

Expressing his willingness to discharge whatever responsibility given to him by TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, Lokesh said he will make every effort to further strengthen the party. “I will discharge every responsibility entrusted to me by the party with discipline,” he averred.

Reiterating his personal opinion that one person should not hold a post for more than three consecutive terms, he said the issue will be discussed in the party platforms. “Also, I feel that I should not continue as TDP national general secretary this time. The party seniors will take a decision on bringing a revolutionary change from the village to Politburo level,” he asserted.

Maintaining that every promise he made to people during his padayatra are being fulfilled one after another, he said the NDA government will implement all its poll promises .

Making it clear that no person who violated the provision of law will be spared, Lokesh said YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy does not have faith in his own mother and sister. “Then how can he repose faith in party activists? Jagan is a leader, who offers his own party for sale, and this is turning out to be true as YSRCP leaders are quitting the party one after the other,” he remarked.

As the inquiry is going on against all those who blatantly violated the law during the previous regime, including some senior officials, all the facts will come out soon. Kakinada Seaport was illegally grabbed by former YSRCP MP V Vijayasai Reddy, and the Enforcement Directorate is conducting an inquiry into it, he said.

“Action will certainly be initiated on land encroachments in Visakhapatnam. If an inquiry is ordered at once into all the irregularities committed by the previous government, police force will not be available for maintenance of law and order in the State,” he observed.

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