Jagan offers governance at your doorstep

Visakhapatnam: Promising to bring governance to the doorsteps of villagers, YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy has reiterated that he will change the course of the state and put it on the track of development, with ample welfare measures and rapid industrialisation.

Jagan rubbished Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu boasting about his nine-year experience in the chief minister's post, describing him as an old horse, who could only make promises but cannot deliver the goods.

Addressing a large gathering at Yelamanchili on Wednesday, Jagan Mohan Reddy said in the wake of state bifurcation, there is an immediate need for the development of residuary Andhra Pradesh as all facilities have been concentrated in Hyderabad.

'My father the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy was instrumental in developing super speciality hospitals in all regions of the state. But recently, I found that these hospitals had all infrastructure, but no doctors.

The government ignored recruitment of doctors and people have been largely depending on Hyderabad for super speciality medical care,' he said. He promised to build a network of 20 super speciality hospitals in all districts of Seemandhra and also its state capital.

Jagan promised to create a capital which will have far better infrastructure than Hyderabad, apart from building four sea ports. He stressed the need to go for rapid industrialisation to generate employment. He blamed Congress and Telugu Desam parties for their divisive politics.

Stating that the state would be shaped into one of the best in the country within 10 years, he sought a massive mandate to the party in civic, local body, Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. 'We need to have numbers to bargain with the Centre which makes you people necessary to vote for YSRC,' he added.

Training his guns on Chandrababu Naidu, the YSR Congress party chief said the TDP president has become old and this would be his last election. 'He has been speaking of housing, waiving loans, free power etc.

While our state budget is `1.25 lakh crore, Naidu says he will waive loans worth `1.60 lakh crore, which is absurd. He also has been making impossible promises like one job per household.

I doubt if he knows that there are 3.5 crore households in the state and since independence only 20 lakh jobs were given by the government. There is no coherence in what he is saying and all his promises will wither away after the elections,' he said.

Promising to continue the legacy of his father, Jagan reiterated that he would fulfill his five poll promises'check school dropouts, increase old age pensions, set up market stabilisation fund for farmers, waive the loans of DWCRA groups and bring governance to the doorsteps of people.