Andhra Pradesh: TDP alleges Rs 6,500 cr scam

Amaravati: TDP national spokesperson Kommareddy Pattabhi on Saturday demanded that the Jagan Mohan Reddy government explain to the poor beneficiaries why it could not fulfill its manifesto promise of giving free houses without the burden of paying bank loans.

Pattabhi accused the Chief Minister of coming to power by making countless empty promises of which the free housing scheme was one of the most heinous betrayals done to the poor people.

As free housing was not ensured, the poor beneficiaries would have to pay Rs 4,000 crore towards bank loans in both the categories of 365 sft and 430 sft houses. Jagan Reddy owed an apology and an explanation to these families now.

Addressing a press conference here, the TDP leader said that as per his promise, the Chief Minister would have to waive bank loans worth Rs 2,405 crore for 74,000 beneficiaries in 365 sft category and another Rs 1,540 crore bank loans for 44,000 beneficiaries in 430 sft category. The TDP also made a promise to waive these bank loans and if it came to power, the poor beneficiaries would have now got all these houses free of cost. Jagan Reddy had made the voters believe his lies at the time of elections but now he had betrayed the poor beneficiaries in housing to the tune of Rs 4,000 crore. Pattabhi also demanded a CBI probe into the Rs 6,500 crore massive fraud indulged in by the ruling YSRCP MLAs and leaders in the house sites scheme.

The TDP leader pointed out that the weaker sections had gone to the courts against the Jagan Reddy regime's oppressive ways of taking away their lands. Very strangely, the YSRCP regime was robbing lands of the poor people on the pretext of giving house sites to the poor people in return.

It was because of such thoughtless and atrocious activities that weaker section farmer Venkataiah took pesticide in Nellore district to end his life. S Bala Raju, a Dalit farmer, also took the extreme step after the local tahsildar threatened to take away his assignment land in East Godavari district.

A Dalit woman committed suicide in Atmakur in similar circumstances. In Guntur district, the assignment farmers threatened to commit suicides by taking pesticide if their lands were taken away by the government forcibly.