Former Union Minister Chinta Mohan alleged that Telugu Desam Occasion (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu was deceiving the youth repeatedly with false guarantees that he would create 20 lakh jobs inside the subsequent 5 years.
Chatting with the villagers at Podalakuru in the course of the door-to-door marketing campaign of the Congress, on Tuesday, Mr. Chinta Mohan mentioned that Mr. Naidu was gravely unfair to the youth in Tirupati and Nellore districts by shelving the ₹6000 crore Mannavaram BHEL manufacturing facility close to Venkatagiri and ₹8000 crore Dugarajapatnam port close to Nellore in 2014 when he returned to energy after the bifurcation of the State.
“Naidu also stopped the Srikalahasti-Nadikudi railway line project. His promises of creating jobs in the state is a big farce,” the Congress chief mentioned. “By halting these three major projects, Mr. Naidu had robbed lakhs of youth in south coastal Andhra Pradesh of their employment opportunities, and contributed to the backwardness of the region,” he added.
Tirupati because the State capital
The previous MP mentioned that each the TDP and the YSR Congress Occasion (YSRCP) governments had failed to understand a State capital for Andhra Pradesh within the final decade.
“Neither Naidu’s Amaravati nor Jagan’s Visakhapatnam plans for a capital succeeded. At this juncture, Tirupati alone is the best suited as the capital, with the availability of government land to the tune of one lakh acres between Yerpedu in Tirupati district and Rapur in Nellore district. The Congress will renew its action plan to make Tirupati the State capital once it comes to power,” Chinta Mohan mentioned, including that the well-known Seventeenth-century saint Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy of the current Kadapa district had prophesied Tirupati because the capital in his oracle ‘Kala Gnanam’.
He concluded by saying that the Congress was progressively regaining its stronghold over the State, which might be mirrored within the ensuing elections.