YSRCP govt. neglected Uttarandhra development, says Purandeswari

Criticising the State government for ‘failing to attract investments’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president, D. Purandeswari, on Friday demanded that the government announce the present status of the MoUs which were signed during the recently held Investor’s Summit in Visakhapatnam and the employment generated so far in the Uttarandhra region.

Criticising the State government for ‘failing to attract investments’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president, D. Purandeswari, on Friday demanded that the government announce the present status of the MoUs which were signed during the recently held Investor’s Summit in Visakhapatnam and the employment generated so far in the Uttarandhra region.

She said that the State government’s focus on investments was evident from the case of the LuLu group, which had shifted its proposed investment plans worth ₹3,000 crore to Tamil Nadu from Visakhapatnam.

The Visakhapatnam region, which had huge potential in tourism growth, was completely neglected by the State government. Apart from the Vistadome coaches’ project to the Araku-bound train, which was provided by the Central government, the State government did not make even minimum efforts to develop tourism here in the last three years, which could have generated huge employment, she alleged.

Ms. Purandeswari, who was on a maiden visit to Visakhapatnam since taking over as the BJP State unit president, was received by hundreds of party leaders and supporters and brought in a procession to the party office at Lawsons’s Bay Colony.

Later, addressing a press conference, Ms. Purandeswari said that she wanted to create awareness among people on the development activities and welfare schemes being implemented in Andhra Pradesh by the BJP-led Central government and “how the ruling YSR Congress Party is cheating people and diverting the funds”.

She said that as part of PMAY, the Central government had sanctioned 1.57 lakh houses in Visakhapatnam, 19,339 in Srikakulam, 14,802 in Bobbili, 25,619 in Vizianagaram and 5,730 in Anakapalli. “The BJP demands that the YSRCP government release a White Paper on how many houses the State government has constructed for the poor in these areas,” she said.

The Central government had sanctioned the doubling of the Araku-Kothavalasa railway line at a cost of around ₹1,840 crore and the works were going on. A third railway line was being laid between Vizianagaram and Kuneru and another one between Vizianagaram and Ichchapuram at a cost of ₹1,000 crore and ₹1,920 crore respectively, she said.