Kadapa MP and YSRCP Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s sister Sharmila has ridiculed TDP Chief N. Chandrababu Naidu saying that the people in the State were not able to forget his misrule for nine years.
Addressing gatherings as part of her ‘Maro Maha Praja Prasthanam’ in the district on Thursday, Sharmila alleged that severe drought prevailed in the entire State during Chandrababu’s nine-year rule. The Transco officials removed electricity meters of the badly-affected farmers for failing to pay increased power tariff, she said, adding that Chandrababu Naidu had increased power tariff eight times during his regime. She recalled that her father Dr YSR launched agitation against Chandrababu’s anti-farmer policies. Recalling that several persons had died in police firing during Chandrababu’s rule, she alleged that hundreds of farmers had committed suicides during Chandrababu’s rule. She alleged that both the Congress and TDP have no intention to benefit the people.
Launching her third day padayatra on Thursday from Tambapuram, she interacted with the people. She said that Dr YSR had tried to help the district by allocating more funds under ‘Jalayagnam’. Dr YSR had firmly tried to provide irrigation and drinking water to the people of the district, she added.
Alleging that both Congress and TDP parties were trying to obstruct emergence of a third political party in the State, she said that both the parties have kept Jagan in the jail by filing false cases and were obstructing the bail petition of Jagan, she added.
She said that Jagananna had quickly responded to the people’s problems and went on hunger strikes and observed deekshas. Jagan spent more time with the people than with his family, but the Congress and TDP have sent such a person to jail, she bemoaned. She also declared that nobody can stop the “Rising Sun” and Jagan would come out of the jail on one day and bring ‘Ramarajyam’. Then only Rajanna’s dream will be fulfilled, she added.
Stating that YSRCP would construct pucca houses to the poor and interest-free loans to the farmers, she said that old age pension would be increased to Rs 1,000. (NSS)