One lakh people expected for Dalita Tejam meet on June 30

Amaravati: The TDP is going to organise the concluding meeting of Dalita Tejam in Nellore on June 30. It is estimated that one lakh people would attend the programme. Dalits representing all the 13 districts of the State are expected to attend the meeting.

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will deliver the key-note address at the meeting, said TDP State president K Kala Venkata Rao at a press conference at the Chief Minister’s residence at Undavalli on Tuesday.

All the MLAs, MPs, Ministers and Dalit leaders will participate in the meeting. The TDP has been organising Dalita Tejam programme for the last four to five months in the State. During these meetings, the party created awareness among Dalits about the welfare and development programmes. They were held right from ward-level to district-level.

Stating that Chandrababu Naidu was giving highest priority to the Dalits, Kala Venkata Rao said that tenders were in final stage for construction of Ambedkar Statue at Amaravati at an estimated cost of Rs 160 crore. 

Minister for Social and Tribal Welfare Nakka Ananda Babu recalled that the party’s programme Dalita Tejam was launched on January 26. He said the concluding meeting will discuss on what the TDP did for Dalits since its inception and how other parties tried to suppress them.

He said the TDP was successful in creating awareness among Dalits on the welfare and developmental programmes introduced during the last four years. Ananda Babu flayed former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for ignoring the welfare of Dalits. He said the earlier governments had misused the SC, ST Sub-Plans. 

The previous governments misused SC ST Sub-Plans but the TDP government spent the entire amount for the welfare of Dalits, he said. Nellore district leader and Minister for Urban Development Narayana said that the objective was to ensure that Dalits derived benefit from the welfare schemes. 

Minister for Excise KS Jawahar pointed out that apart from welfare and development, the TDP gave priority to Dalits in politics right from its inception. He described the TDP as a party of Dalits.