YS Jagan Mohan Reddy fanning caste feelings for political gains, alleges Nara Lokesh

Amaravati: TDP national general secretary and former minister Nara Lokesh criticised Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for 'deliberately misinterpreting' demographic imbalance as caste imbalance with the ulterior motive to derive undue political advantage.

Lokesh said that the Chief Minister was telling all lies only to rake up caste feelings and thereby to divert the attention of the people from the pressing issues and problems in the state.

Jagan Mohan Reddy fully well knew that demographic imbalance had nothing to do with caste but yet he was resorting to cheap political gimmicks with utter disregard for decorum and decency, he added. In a statement here on Saturday, Lokesh said that it was because of his non-stop lying that Jagan was being called as a 'fake CM'. No section of society in was now ready to trust the words and statements of the Chief Minister, he said.

The real caste imbalance was taking place in the present regime as it was discriminating against the weaker sections in nominated posts and works, he alleged. Lokesh said that over 850 posts at the top levels in the government and corporations were given to only one caste.

Yet the Chief Minister was trying to level allegations against the TDP unabashedly. He said Jagan was thoroughly mistaken if he thought that throwing insignificant posts like alms to the weaker sections and BCs was real demographic balance or social justice.