Beware of betrayers: Chandrababu Naidu

Kurnool: Dubbing the BJP and Congress as "great betrayers" of the trust of the people of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday called upon them to drive away the saffron party from Andhra soil just as the way they did in respect of the grand old party.

Speaking at the Nava Nirmana Deeksha camp at Jonnagiri village in Thuggali mandal, the Chief Minister said that though the BJP remained unhelpful and unresponsive to the pleas of the state for hand-holding, the state had clocked double digit growth. He said even without help from anywhere, he could steer the state to prosperity but the Centre, which should come to the rescue of a state badly hurt by the bifurcation, had abdicated its responsibility. 

Naidu said if the Congress had divided the sate irrationally, the BJP after coming to power in 2014, did not keep its promise of delivering special category status and honour a host of other assurances made in the bifurcation Act. He cautioned the people against walking into the trap laid by the Jana Sena and the YSRCP as both of them are appendages of the BJP. "If you vote for either YSRCP or Pawan Kalyan, it is as good as voting for the BJP," he said.

Later Naidu interacted with the farmers and the residents of SC and BC colonies in the village. During the interaction, Naidu told them that the aim of Grama Darshani is to understand the people and their woes from a close distance. "The government is working hard for the welfare of the poor. None other than the TDP government has waived crop loans of Rs 24000 crore. 

Even the SC and ST families are being provided free power up to 75 units," asserted Naidu. The Chief Minister assured measures to fill 63 ponds with the waters of Handri Neeva Sujala Sravanthi canal with a cost of Rs 240 crore and this process would be completed in an year,  after laying the foundation stone for the works.  He called upon the people to protect the rain water by impounding it in farm ponds.  

The farmers have dug farm ponds in an extent of 7.25 lakh acres under ‘panta sanjeevini’. He said his government wants to irrigate 2 crore acres and has taken oath to extend water to the last acre in the state. The government is determined to complete all pending irrigation projects on priority basis besides Polavaram, Naidu said.