On June 8, the Telugu Desam Party had completed four years in office and it had come handy for the Opposition parties to slam the government. The Congress and the YSR Congress have released charge-sheet against the government highlighting its failures in the last four years.
The Congress had taken a dig at the ruling TDP on key promises of the TDP including loan waiver for farmers’ and self-help group women, employment for every family and unemployment benefit to the unemployed youth. The Congress took at the TDP for its faulty loan waiver scheme to the farmers and women. The Congress leaders in the charge-sheet said that the TDP had promised total loan waiver to the farmers which was calculated at Rs 84,000 crore at the time of 2014 elections but had fixed it at Rs 24,000 crore after winning the elections. The farmers who were asked not to pay back the bank loans during elections have finally become defaulters as the government did not repay their loans or waiver them as promised. Same is the case with the self-help group women who were also declared as defaulters by the banks. The farmers and the women were not eligible for bank loans for the past three years and the banks were taking away the money from their savings accounts, the Congress said.
The Congress also blamed the government for not implementing the unemployment stipend promise betraying the youth who trusted the TDP.
The YSR Congress too in its charge sheet had blamed the TDP government for betraying people on the special category status. The YSR Congress recounted the TDP’s stand on the special category status and recorded how many times that the TDP chief had changed its stand. The denial of the special category status was seen as the greatest betrayal by the TDP, while its failure to utilise Rs 1500 crore given by the Central government for building Amaravati capital city. The YSR Congress said that the TDP government had failed to complete even the designs for the government buildings in the new capital and wondered when will it complete the project. The party also found fault with the State government for taking up the works on Polavaram and Amaravati on its own while it was the responsibility of the Central government to complete them as per the AP Reorganisation Act.
“The State government is wasting its energy and resources by doing these works which were to be executed by the Central government,” the YSR Congress asserted.
