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Decentralised development TDP’s top agenda: Nara Lokesh
He also promised uniform development of the State and vowed that development will not be centralised around Amaravati as in the past. He also answered questions on special status versus special package
Anantapur: TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh during his interaction with the youth answered many questions on industrialisation of the State to completion of irrigation projects and generation of jobs for the youth in every district.
He also promised uniform development of the State and vowed that development will not be centralised around Amaravati as in the past.
He also answered questions on special status versus special package.
Most of the questions were posed by girls of PVKK Engineering College. Sharanya, a student demanded linkage of Penna river to Chitravati river while Pooja another student sought clarification on Special Category Status (SCS) and why government settled for special package.
Lokesh said that for technical reasons special package had been accepted after the Central government assured to accrue all benefits of SCS in special package. The Polavaram project is being given cent per cent funding against the normal practice of 90:10 ratio by the Centre and State.
He also agreed with Manjula another student on scrapping of Rs 2,000 note as they defeated the very purpose of scrapping Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination notes.
He brushed aside another question as hypothetical on he becoming the next Chief Minister saying that his father would live for 100 years and continue as the Chief Minister for several terms.
Kalyani asked that if all are equal before law then why these reservations on the basis of caste to which Lokesh replied that reservations on the basis of economic parameters were the right thing, caste-wise reservations were being implemented because majority of the reserved castes were economically backward.
Another student, Ashwin demanded allocation of 100 tmcft of water as rulers did nothing for Rayalaseema for the past 60 years. He reiterated that Rayalaseema would get the required water and that Handri-Neeva project would be completed before 2019.
He urged the youth to just wait for three years for things to take proper shape and see good results.
