Jagan, Naidu silent over steel plant issue, alleges Chinta Mohan
The Hindu
Congress will scrap privatisation proposal if voted to power, says former Union Minister
Former Union Minister and Congress Working Committee special invitee Chinta Mohan on Monday criticised Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and Leader of Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu for not questioning the BJP-led NDA government over the privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
Addressing a press conference along with the party’s district unit president Boddepalli Satyavati, Mr. Chinta Mohan said that both leaders failed to utter a single word against the Centre over the highly sensitive issue.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.