The New Order
- Praja Vedika home of Naiidu demolished.
- Notices issued to Naidu to vacate home built 바카라illegally바카라 on Krishna riverbed
- All power purchase agreements of TDP tenure scrapped
- Amaravati project work stalled
- Polavaram project suspended
- Consent to CBI to probe cases that the TDP government had stalled
- 108 emergency services renamed from NTR Vaidya Seva to YSR Arogya Sri and Anna canteens to Rajanna canteens
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They are the worst of foes, sparing not a single opportunity to snap at each other. The verbal volleys have been outright venomous, like when Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy said before a crowd in 2017 that his opponent, N. Chandrababu Naidu, 바카라should be shot in public for his double-speak and unending corruption바카라. Naidu, then chief minister, was equally vicious when he called Jagan a ganja plant in a tulsi garden, comparing him with luminaries that the YSRCP chief바카라s home turf Kadapa had produced.
Since Jagan became chief minister, decimating Naidu바카라s TDP in this year바카라s elections, he appears to be stealing a recurring scene from the Indian political backcloth바카라one that flashes the V for Vendetta prominently. Going by the political drift of undoing the past, especially legacies associated with the predecessor, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister is following a predictable line바카라starting with a bulldozer licking Naidu바카라s riverfront house, Praja Vedika, which apparently was built illegally. For reasons best known to him, Jagan held out the threat to take the wrecking ball to Naidu바카라s official home, built just a shout away from Praja Vedika, although notices have been sent to the occupant to vacate the property.
Also, Jagan is reviewing all policies, plans, projects and schemes of Naidu바카라s government. Instructions are out to halt projects, now at different stages of completion, such as the Amaravati capital city바카라running into crores of rupees. The CM, who has accused Naidu of wide-scale corruption and nepotism, says these projects will be cleared only after thorough review and scrutiny. He wants fresh tenders for several projects to bring down costs and to expose the alleged corruption of the TDP.
For a state reeling from drought-like conditions over the past decade, Jagan didn바카라t spare the Polavaram irrigation project across the Godavari, putting it on hold till this November by which time corruption charges against the TDP administration will be looked into. He had instructed irrigation officials to complete the project within two years. Besides, he has initiated steps to recover from the Centre Rs 5,000 crore that the TDP government had spent on the project.
Another contentious decision was Jagan바카라s cancellation of power purchase agreements signed by the Naidu administration. Why? A probe found that an excess of Rs 2,686 crore was paid because of the so-called inequitable wind and solar energy agreements. And Jagan, who came to power riding a populist agenda, has held that Andhra바카라s power tariff is higher than most states because of Naidu바카라s alleged corrupt practices during his tenure. However, Union minister R.K. Singh has advised Jagan not to cancel the agreements and dropped a caveat that 바카라if the contracts are not honoured, the investments stop coming바카라.
Jagan has also rebranded Naidu바카라s schemes to suit his political interests바카라such as renaming the popular Anna canteens to Rajanna canteens, sort of soup kitchens where the poor could buy a meal for a paltry Rs 5, cooked and served in clean and hygienic kitchens and dining halls across the state. The Anna canteens were suspended temporally, apparently to check corruption allegations, until they are re-launched with the new name and a reduced price tag바카라Rs 4 a meal.
Senior TDP leader Gorantla Butchaiah Choudhary terms the YSRCP government바카라s decisions as destructive. 바카라What he, or his government, is going to achieve by renaming schemes?바카라 he asks. 바카라Are people fools to forget who initiated the schemes?바카라 He, though, appreciated the new government바카라s enhanced old-age pension of Rs 2,250 a month, with the promise to increase it to Rs 3,000 gradually. The scheme is named after his late father and former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
The TDP바카라s main objection is against the stalling of all activities in Amaravati. 바카라I personally term the decision as the most destructive and vindictive,바카라 Choudhary says. The BJP local leadership, including Sujana Chowdary, who recently defected from the Congress, has trained its guns against Jagan. Wastage of taxpayer바카라s money is what the BJP called Jagan바카라s Rs 25-lakh security expenditure for his thanksgiving visit to Jerusalem with his family.
By M.S. Shanker in Hyderabad
