Hyderabad, September 12: Late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s corruption is an open secret. Not only the opposition parties, even the leaders of his own party have made several allegations against him. In the guise of welfare schemes for the poor, he has also robbed the public exchequer and allowed his people also to lay their hands on the public money – this is the main allegation against him.
Now Wikileaks has thrown a bomb on YSR, confirming all these allegations. Wikileaks has leaked a cable three days ago. The US consulate authorities of Chennai have toured Hyderabad and sent a cable titled ‘Corruption Plagues Andhra Pradesh Big Ticket Spending Programmes’ to the US government on October 22, 2007. Wikileaks says that the cable mentioned about the corrupt practices of YSR.
The US authorities have stated in that cable that though every one knew about YSR’s corruption, he took care that no one made it an issue. The cable also said that though the common-man-centric welfare schemes were introduced by the Andhra Pradesh government spending lakhs of crores of rupees, a discussion has started expressing fears that these very schemes would endanger the welfare of the people, despite their being politically popular. The Wikileaks has said the American authorities have mentioned in their report that there was a country-wide debate on the unprecedented corruption of the YSR government.
—Courtesy:AndhraH