Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday celebrated Raksha Bandhan with women ministers tying ‘rakhi’ to him

Home Minister Taneti Anita, Minister for Health and Family Welfare V. Rajini, women commission chairperson Vasireddy Padma, Vijayawada mayor R. Bhagyalaxmi and other leaders tied ‘rakhi’ to the chief minister at his residence.

Brahmakumaris and women leaders of YSR Congress Party tied ‘rakhi’ to Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Eshwari Brahmakumari representatives Rajayogini Brahmakumari Santi Didi, Sisters Padmaja and Manasa tied Rakhi to the chief minister.

They invited him to their Global Summit to be held at Mount Abu in September as part of the Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav.

Earlier, the chief minister greeted women on Raksha Bandhan. She called Raksha Bandhan a symbol of brother-sister bond. “I am proud to say that we have been supporting women for three years,” he said and hoped that women will continue to bless the government of their brother.

Meanwhile, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao also extended greetings to the people of the state on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan which strengthens the sacred spirit of brotherhood in human relations.

KCR said that the feeling of bond of protection that brothers should always offer to their respective sisters is involved in the festival of Rakhi.

The Chief Minister said that the festival of Rakhi, which is celebrated every year on the full moon of the month of Shravan with brotherhood and love, is a great tradition in Indian culture since time immemorial.

On the occasion of Rakshabandhan, KCR hoped that the feeling of brotherhood among the people of the country would get strengthened.

Industries minister K. T. Rama Rao interacted with women beneficiaries of various schemes on Raksha Bandhan.

The minister said KCR was working to give bright future to every woman in the state.

He said the state government was providing pension to 14 lakh single women and widows and four lakh women beedi workers.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy released the fee reimbursement to the students under Jagananna Vidya Deevena at the district headquarters town of Bapatla on Thursday. He paid Rs 694 crore to benefit 11.02 lakh students in the state.

Jagan Mohan Reddy paid the fee directly into the bank accounts of the mothers of these students. The mothers would in return pay the amount to the colleges where the students are pursuing their professional studies.

The state government would also pay an additional Rs 20,000 to each of these students towards their food and other expenses under the Jagananna Vasathi Deevena. In addition, the state government would clear Rs 1,778 crore arrears, which have been kept pending since the TDP regime.

While thanking the chief minister for visiting Bapatla district for the first time after it was made district, local MLA and former deputy speaker Kona Raghupathi, said that the long-pending dream of the people of the area had come true with Bapatla becoming the new district.

The local MLA also thanked the chief minister for granting a medical college with teaching hospital in Bapatla. He requested the chief minister to give sufficient funds to develop Bapatla municipality.

Minister for Social Welfare Meruga Nagarjua wanted people to remember and support Jagan Mohan Reddy who had been working for the welfare of the people with focus on health and education.

In a bid to revamp the welfare hostels system and maintain the structure on a war footing, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has ordered for an action plan and standard operating procedure.

The chief minister on Wednesday reviewed the infrastructural facilities in SC, ST, OBC and Minority Gurukul schools’ welfare hostels under Nadu-Nedu scheme and ordered comprehensive development. He also directed the officials to focus on quality, instead of quantity while taking up the revamp works.

“Improve the existing hostels by increasing the monthly maintenance fund. Put yourself in their shoes while revisiting the numbers. Be empathetic and focus on the qualitative part,” said Reddy.

The chief minister called for moving the hostels out of rented buildings and housing them permanently in owned buildings within a year. He also said that all vacancies should be filled immediately. The state government is also introducing the family doctor concept to the hostels by connecting them with nearby PHC. “Doctors should visit the hostel on monthly basis,” the chief minister added.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the officials to stop the millers from exploiting the farmers during the paddy procurement by giving them qualitative and quantitative receipts at RBKs while the rest of the process will be done by the custodian officer of the government.

“Generate a random lottery system so millers would not know from which RBKs the grains are coming from,” Chief Minister instructed the officials. “There should be effective coordination between the various departments which helps the RBKs to function smoothly,” said the Chief Minister.

Like the family doctor concept, the Chief Minister also asked the officials to come up with a soil doctor who would give each landholding farmer or tenant a health card to monitor the soil and give them a specific diagnosis.

“Fertilizers based on lands will avoid the indiscriminate use of fertilizers by the people. Most of the farmers are not aware of the use of fertilizers and they are doing it because some other farmer has been following the model,” said the Chief Minister.

He said that RBKs should eventually become farmers’ doctors. “Soil tests should be done regularly and health cards to be given to the farmers. Along with health care, RBK should provide advice on fertilizers and crop cultivation suitable for that land,” said the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister said that the farmers should get the minimum support prices and there should be no role for millers during the procurement process. “Famers should be educated regarding the procurements and MSP by seeing the posters at RBKs. The poster should also have phone numbers for the farmers to report any irregularities,” said the Chief Minister.

He said that RBKs have five kinds of testing including soil and the equipment should be provided along with the training to the staff. He also asked them to establish a weighing bridge at the RBK level so the dependency on the private bridge would be reduced.

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has asked the party cadre to work towards achieving the best and script history in YSRCP style in 2024 as was done in all the subsequent elections after coming to power.

Addressing the Party workers from Rajam constituency here on Friday, the Chief Minister said that in Rajam constituncy alone Rs 775 crore have been distributed through DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) for various schemes.

Among welfare schemes, we have allotted over 12,403 plots for housing worth over Rs 248 crores, he said.

This apart, 9509 houses costing over Rs 171 crore are under construction
It is time for us to proudly tell the people about our work and stress the point that we have fulfilled 95 percent of our poll promises, he said.

We need to establish a strong relationship between the cadre and volunteers at the grassroots level.

We also need to form booth committees where we need to give 50 per cent representation to SC, ST, BC and Minorities and make sure that there are 50 percent women in each committee.

Development is tangible in our government in every village in the form of a Secretariat, RBK (Rythu Bharosa Kendras) and English medium schools.

In Agriculture, Education and Health we have brought in revolutionary changes and now time has come for us to propagate our good work, he said.

‘I need the support of all the cadre to keep performing and we must work towards scripting history, YSRCP style, he said
We must aim for a win where for the next 30 years the Opposition withers away, he said.

Chief Minister and the YSR Congress president, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is all set to begin his much-awaited interaction with the party workers from Kuppam Assembly constituency. The interaction is scheduled to be held from August 4 evening at his camp office in Tadepalli.

Jagan Mohan Reddy had intentionally picked up Kuppam to start his mission with an eye to defeat TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the next election too. Jagan Mohan Reddy is riding high with great expectations on Kuppam, as he could defeat the TDP in all the local body elections, right from village panchayat to the Kuppam Municipality.

He is scheduled to meet at least 50 active workers of the party from every assembly constituency at every meeting. He had asked the MLAs, MPs and the constituency incharge leaders to send the list of the names to be invited for the meeting with the chief minister. Besides, the chief minister’s office had also secured some names suggested by the I-PAC, the political consulting agency which works for the YSR Congress.

Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to interact with a good number of them at every meeting, and finally speak for 30 minutes on the role to be played by these workers during the elections. He is getting feedback on every MLA ahead of these meetings and would get some additional information from them during the interaction.

Meanwhile, Jagan Mohan Reddy is also planning to hold Praja Darbar at Tadepalli camp office shortly, where he intends to meet the general public and receive representations from them. However, the chief minister’s office is yet to decide the dates and the schedule to hold these Darbars.

Late Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy used to hold Praja Darbar every day when he was the chief minister and received representations from the people. Dr Rajasekhar Reddy received applause from the people through this intervention. It is to be seen how far Jagan Mohan Reddy would succeed in his meetings with the people in Praja Darbar.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is telling his party leaders to focus on winning all 175 Assembly seats in the 2024 general election. He has justification for the top target. The first reason is the number of cash schemes that he had been rolling out for the last three years, benefiting almost every family in the state. The schemes were continued even during the lockdown and through the Covid pandemic.

The other reason is the party’s victory in Kuppam Assembly constituency which has been the fortress of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu. The TDP chief had been winning this seat since the 1989 election. He campaigned in the constituency in the 1989 and 1994 elections.

As he became the chief minister in 1995, he never visited the constituency to file his nomination during the election or to receive the declaration form after the election. In all, Chandrababu Naidu had won this constituency in seven consecutive elections.

Besides the MLA elections, the TDP had been doing well in the constituency in all the local body elections for all these years. But, perhaps for the first time, the TDP had lost all the local body elections.

The Jagan Mohan Reddy government had upgraded the Kuppam town into a municipality and now made it a revenue division headquarters in the district’s reorganisation. The present government had also constructed a primary health care centre, opened a junior college and provided new buildings for the school under the Nadu-Nedu programme.

With all these initiatives, the YSR Congress had won all the gram panchayats, mandal parishads and the municipal elections in the last year. Having won these elections, Jagan Mohan Reddy set his eyes on winning all 175 Assembly seats. “If we are winning Kuppam, why not the rest,” is what Jagan Mohan Reddy is telling his party leaders.

However, he is giving the target of 155 seats in his inner circle. While the 151 seats are from his own party, Jagan Mohan Reddy is firm on winning the four Assembly seats which were added to his party from the TDP. It is to be seen how far he would succeed in this mission 2024.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy paid Rs 508.18 crore under YSR Kapu Nestham on Friday, benefitting 3,38,792 women belonging to Kapu, Balija, Ontari, Telaga castes across the state.

Addressing the gathering, the Chief Minister said that the state government had credited Rs 16,256 crore through DBT for the Kapu community through various welfare schemes in the last three years, where Rs 1492 crore was spent alone on YSR Kapu Nestam.

He said that the scheme was not mentioned in the manifesto, yet it was initiated to benefit women by providing financial assistance of Rs 15,000 per annum, similar to YSR Cheyutha to empower women with business opportunities, and stated that the government is working for the welfare of these communities.

Drawing a comparison with the previous TDP government, he said that only Rs 400 crore per annum was spent for Kapu, Balija, Telaga and Ontari castes in TDP rule, while the present government had almost spent over Rs 32,296 crore in the last three years through both DBT and non-DBT schemes.

He stated that through DBT, funds of welfare schemes are being directly deposited into the beneficiaries’ accounts without any corruption or discrimination and added that DPT (Dochuko, Panchuko, Thinuko) was effectively implemented during Chandrababu’s regime.

Taking a dig at the gang of four including Chandrababu Naidu, Pawan Kalyan, and a section of the media, the Chief Minister said that they were all trying to mislead people and secure power. He said that Pawan has been trying to sell the Kapu votes to Chandrababu. He asked people whether they want DBT governance or Chandrababu’s DPT rule.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy gifted his pen to a child during his visit to the flood-hit villages of Ambedkar Konaseema district on Tuesday. During his visit in the Pedapudilanka village, he saw a mother carrying her eight-months-old boy and picked him up.

Jagan Mohan Reddy held the child, Nakka Vijaya Chaitanya, in his hands and was listening to the people, when the boy picked up the pen from the chief minister’s pocket. The child could not hold it and it slipped to the ground.

The child’s mother picked up the pen from the ground and returned it to Jagan Mohan Reddy. Smiling at the child, Jagan Mohan Reddy handed over his pen to the child, wishing him to study well as he grew up.

The mother was in tears as she took back her child from the chief minister along with the pen, as others in the village cheered the chief ministers’ gesture.

Later, Jagan Mohan Reddy received a representation from a woman in the same village who said that her husband fell sick and she was finding it hard to manage the family. The chief minister directed the district collector to appoint the woman as village volunteer.

Before the chief minister left the village, the district officials readied the appointment letter Jagan Mohan Reddy handed over to the woman.

The chief minister also met a mentally retarded man, Matha Sathyannarayana in the same village. The chief minister told the officials to provide better health care to him and extend some financial support to the family.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday visited the flood-affected areas in B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema district.

Accompanied by ministers, local MLAs and other leaders, he called on those affected by the Godavari floods.

The chief minister interacted with the flood victims and enquired with the officers about the relief measures undertaken.

Continuing his visit amid rains, the chief minister sailed in a boat and travelled in a tractor to tour the affected island villages.

Jagan Mohan Reddy visited G. Pedapudi village in P. Gannavaram mandal (block). He consoled the flood victims and assured them that the government would extend all possible help.

The chief minister visited Pucchakayalavaripeta, Arigelavaripeta, Vudimudilanka, and Mekalapalem areas to interact with the victims and oversee the relief measures.

Jagan Reddy enquired from the victims about the facilities in relief camps. He also asked them about the response from local officials in attending to their problems.

After the tour, he would review the rescue operations with the officials of the Godavari region at Rajahmundry R&B Guest House.