Jagan Jolt Number 65
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There바카라™s an instant trivia from Andhra Pradesh. How many cases chief minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy바카라™s government lost in the high court? The answer is 65 so far바카라”almost one every week in one year since he became CM in May 2019. That바카라™s not trivial, actually. The legal setbacks have spurred his critics to demand his resignation, their attacks laced with accusations that he is 바카라œincompetent바카라. Take state BJP unit chief K.L. Narayana바카라™s remarks: 바카라œInexperience, corruption, lack of understanding, adamant behaviour, Police Raj and reverse tendering. This is the one year rule of Jagan. He is a failed CM.바카라 Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, whom Reddy succeeded as CM, called him the modern-day Tuglaq.

Reddy바카라™s latest failure is his government바카라™s attempt to get rid of state election commissioner N. Ramesh Kumar through an ordinance following his refusal to hold rural elections amid the coronavirus crisis. The CM wanted to go ahead despite the lockdown, expecting a landslide victory that would have given juice to his plan to shift the state capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam. The plan is currently mired in litigation. The high court ordered reinstating Kumar who, for his part, headed straight to his office after the judgment while the YSRCP government ran to the Supreme Court.

At 47, Reddy is young by Indian political standards. According to Nagesh Kumar, a former MLC, the CM has a dozen advisors, including friendly journalists hired at wages upwards of Rs 3 lakh a month. 바카라œWhat is his battery of advisors doing?바카라 he asks. Problem is, sources say, Reddy seldom consults them. 

By M.S. Shanker in Hyderabad

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