CM Jagan has turned AP into 'mafia raj', alleges TDP
India Today
The Telugu Desam Party, the opposition in Andhra Pradesh, has said that CM Jagan's rule has turned the state into a "mafia raj" and that Andhra could meet the same fate as Sri Lanka.
Andhra Pradesh has turned into a "mafia raj" under the three-year rule of Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy even as the state went back 30 years in terms of development and faced the threat of meeting the same fate as Sri Lanka, the opposition Telugu Desam Party said on Friday.
With a debt of Rs 8 lakh crore, the state that once stood on top of the country in development and good governance has now turned into a symbol of destruction, the principal opposition party said.
A political resolution to this effect, moved by politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, was adopted on the first day of the two-day Mahanadu, the TDP’s annual conclave, here on Friday.
The party gave a call to the people to re-dedicate themselves to rebuild the state, freeing it from the "incompetent and despotic" regime of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
"Andhra Pradesh exemplified how things would be when inept, corrupt, criminal and deceptive people take over the reins. Vested interests were ruling the roost while welfare and development have been ignored," the TDP said.
The YSR Congress turned the state into a "mafia hub" in land, mining, sand, liquor, drugs, red sandalwood and the like, it further said.
The main opposition party also expressed apprehension that AP could soon meet the fate of Sri Lanka, with industrialisation on the decline, growing unemployment and mounting state debt.
