"Jagan should take responsibility for fund loss to AP," says Yanamala

Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], November 14 (ANI): Telugu Desam senior leader Yanamala Ramakrishnudu on Tuesday slammed the Jagan Mohan Reddy Government for the loss of funds to Andhra Pradesh.
"The Jagan Mohan Reddy Government is doing great injustice to the downtrodden sections of society by diverting the Central funds released for the welfare and development of these sections," said TDP politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu.
Ramakrishnudu alleged that the Central funds are being diverted by the State Government for corruption and wasteful expenditure, doing injustice to the underprivileged sections of society.
"The State had to suffer a loss of thousands of crores in the past four years as the ruling dispensation has not released the matching grant for over 94 Centrally sponsored schemes affecting the development of the downtrodden sections," he said.
Telugu Desam senior leader said that CM Jagan Mohan Reddy has been continuing his maladministration with his sole agenda of diverting the Central funds for farming to the health sector and industry to irrigation sectors.
"In four years, a whopping Rs 71,449 cr has been diverted within minutes of releasing these funds by the Centre thus resorting to large-scale corruption and irregularities. Except for selling government assets, imposing a heavy financial burden on the people and raising loans at a heavy interest rate, Jagan is continuing his rule with no mention of development and welfare," the TDP politburo member observed.
Ramakrishnudu alleged that the people are falling victim to the conspiracies of Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is keeping it a secret that several schemes for education and health sectors besides pensions are being implemented with the Central funds.
He said that the Centre has withheld the release of Rs 6,000 cr as the Jagan Government did not mend its ways despite the Centre sending a letter raising objections to the inclusion of Jagan and YSR names in front of every government scheme. Ramakrishnudu said that Jagan Mohan Reddy should take responsibility for this, adding, "The Jagan Reddy Government is spending huge amounts of public funds for personal campaigning."
Observing that Jagan is squarely responsible for withholding of Rs 4,000 cr capital expenditure, Ramakrishnudu pointed out that the Chief Minister has diverted Rs 3,084 cr sanctioned by the Centre for building houses for the poor.
"On the one side, the promise of building five lakh housing units per year has not been fulfilled and on the other, the State Government is diverting the funds being released by the Centre for house construction," he said.
"Is it not a fact that the drought relief of Rs 900 cr released by the Centre was not distributed to the farmers," asked Ramakrishnudu.
"The Rs 8.60 cr funds allocated by the 14th and 15th Finance Commission for the development of the panchayats have been embezzled by misusing the digital key of the sarpanches," he added.
He also slammed YSRCP seniors questioning them whether they are not aware that diverting the funds from panchayat accounts is illegal.
The TDP politburo member asked and felt that all the panchayats got totally unnerved by the actions of the State Government. "They reduced the condition of the panchayats wherein they were unable to pay even the drinking water and sanitation bills," he regretted.
"The rural areas are no exception as the funds being released by the Centre for the village's development under the Employment Guarantee Scheme are also diverted thus doing great injustice to rural areas too. This has resulted in lakhs of people from different villages migrating to various places in the past four years as Rs 7,879 cr Central funds have been diverted," he noted. (ANI)