TDP MP from Srikakulam, K Ram Mohan Naidu called on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss the kidnapping of two professors from AP and Telangana by the ISIS in Libya. The issue got bogged down by many local issues in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana that cropped up in recent past. There has been no talk of the subject either in the state or at the centre. Conveying the agony of the families undergoing, the MP asked for centre’s renewed efforts in tracing and getting the professors released safe.
Rammohan also sought Centre’s help with regard to the retrieval the body of D Hari Krishna, who died in Dubai, few days ago. Sushma is said to have assured the TDP MP that the Union government was trying its best to bring back the two Telugu-speaking professors, who were in custody ISIS terrorists, at the earliest.She informed the MP that the two persons are alive and safe in Libya. The Union Minister also assured that she would intervene to expedite the process of bringing back the body of D Hari Krishna to AP.
AP too is a victim heavy rains
Nellore Lok Sabha MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy(YSRCP) urged the Centre to release adequate funds to the State to undertake relief and restoration works in the flood-ravaged Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa and Prakasam districts of the State.Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, the MP said that the played havoc not only with Tamil Nadu but also affected his district and constituency Nellore. Other districts like Chittoor, Kadapa and Prakasam in AP also bore brunt of the heavy downpour in the recent past, he said. “Our state has been a major victim of untimely rains and successive cyclones like Laila, Phailin, Nilam and Hudhud. Each cyclone caused unprecedented damage to the life and property, particularly to standing crops, poultry and horticulture,” he said.
The YSRC MP alleged that the State government had not been able to reach out to even one percent of affected farmers in flood-hit areas. “Our State government is yet to make final assessment of losses due to recent floods as the areas are still receiving huge rains. In the last untimely rains, in my state, 13 deaths were reported from six districts due to the rains and 11,334 hectares of crop area was damaged. Paddy was damaged in 4,562 hectares, chillies in 2,002 hectares, mango in 1,478 hectares, banana in 550 hectares, vegetables in 630 hectares and other crops like sesame, cotton and groundnut were also affected,” Rajamohan Reddy explained.