TDP will have no qualms about discarding welfare schemes, cautions Jagan
The CM, while reading out a list of promises made by the TDPBJPJSP alliance in 2014, says not a single one of them was delivered; development and welfare possible only with YSRCP, he asserts
All the welfare schemes that were instituted by the YSRCP government and being successfully implemented over the last five years would be promptly dismantled if the TDPBJPJSP alliance were to form the next government, YSRCP president and Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
He was addressing a public meeting as part of his ‘Memantha Siddham’ bus yatra at Etukuru in Guntur district on Friday.
“Should you cast your vote for (TDP national president) Chandrababu Naidu, it will be akin to stating that you no longer want the benefits of any of the welfare schemes implemented in the last 58 months,” Mr. Jagan said.
Stating that his government has spent around ₹2.70 lakh crore on public welfare and has delivered on 98% of the promises made in the YSRCP’s manifesto ahead of the 2019 elections, Mr. Jagan said that were the TDP to be voted to power, it would immediately roll back all the welfare schemes.
Reading out from a copy of the TDPBJPJSP’s 2014 manifesto, he alleged that they failed to waive off the loans of farmers and SHGs as promised, during the five years that Mr. Naidu was Chief Minister from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Jagan continued to read out from the manifesto, listing what he said were “several more promises made by the alliance, with none of them being delivered”. “It is deplorable that the same three parties have come together again, saying that they want to do good for the people,” Mr. Jagan said.
Urging the public to not be swayed over by the “false promises being made by the NDA”, Mr. Jagan reiterated that welfare and development would be able to go handinhand only with a YSRCP government at the helm.
Before addressing the public meeting, he organised a daylong bus yatra from Sattenapalli Assembly constituency in Palnadu district to Etukuru in Guntur, passing through Sattenapalli, Medikonduru, Perecharla, Nallapadu and Etukuru.
Undeterred by a strong downpour in the evening, Mr. Jagan went on with his bus yatra, with a large crowd following him