TDP demands details on CSR spending from YSR Foundation
The Hindu
TDP accuses YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's family of misusing YSR's name for political gain, without adding value to works done by YSR.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Sunday accused Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s family of using the name of former Chief Minister the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy for political gain, without actually adding value to the works done by the former CM.
Addressing a media conference here, TDP spokesperson Anam Venkataramana Reddy alleged that the YSR Foundation, formed as a unit of the YS family-run companies to channelise the charity spending under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), had not spent a single rupee for public cause.
“Their balance sheet shows that the foundation received over ₹4 crore, from which they built a building worth ₹2 crore somewhere, but nothing has been spent for a public cause,” he told the media. Even the YSR statues installed across the State were funded by his local admirers; the family did not spend anything on them, he added.
Mr. Anam Venkataramana Reddy compared the foundation with the NTR Trust, which runs schools, blood banks and Sanjeevani clinics across the two Telugu states, and the ‘Basavatharakam cancer hospital’, which had taken up charitable activities worth ₹500 crore this year.
To a query on whether election strategist Prashanth Kishor would work for the TDP, Mr. Anam Venkataramana Reddy admitted to have no official information as yet, but opined that Mr. Kishor had turned remorseful for having played a role in the State’s “destruction” by striving for the electoral victory of Mr. Jagan.
Almaya Munnettam (Lay People to the Fore), group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church opposed to the synod-recommended Mass, rejected a circular issued by Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and apostolic administrator Bosco Puthur on June 9 to implement the unified Mass in the archdiocese from July 3.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.