TDP senior leader and former minister Nakka Ananda Babu on Wednesday alleged that additional advocate general Ponnavolu Sudhakar Reddy was speaking like an agent of Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

He took strong objections to Sudhakar Reddy opposing the bail granted to TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu by the high court in the skill development scam. He said all accused in the skill development scam are on bail and wanted to know whether the additional advocate general is aware of it or not.

He sought to advise Sudhakar Reddy to speak as an additional advocate general and not as an agent of chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy. He alleged that the additional advocate general was making political statements. His comments against the bail petition were highly objectionable, the TDP leader said.

He said that the ruling YSR Congress leaders were unable to digest the high court granting bail to Chandrababu Naidu in the case. He further said that Chandrababu Naidu’s name was included in the case after 22 months of filing the FIR.

He said that the high court observed that the case has no evidence to prove charges against Chandrababu Naidu. The supreme court too would say the same, the TDP leader asserted. He alleged that the government was wasting the public money by paying it to the advocates in high court and supreme court.

He also blamed the additional advocate general and the APCID for holding press conferences in Hyderabad and Delhi. He wanted to know what provision in the law gave them the power to hold press conferences against the Leader of Opposition.

He blamed state government advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy for making baseless charges against the TDP leaders in the skill development scam and the fibernet scam. He said that a thief is calling others thieves.

The TDP leader also alleged that the government was resorting to data theft using the volunteers’ network in the state. The volunteers have all the data about the people, every family in the state, he said.

Former minister and TDP politburo member, Nakka Ananda Babu, on Friday felt that Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, has begun narrating cock and bull stories like Bhu Hakku (land rights) and Bhu Raksha (land safety) only to provide legal rights to the YSRCP leaders on the 14 lakh acres of assigned and other lands that they have grabbed in various parts of the State.

Ananda Babu told media persons here that Jagan’s ugly design is to provide all legal rights on the lands looted by the YSRCP leaders, including party MP, Vijayasai Reddy, across the State. Observing the the ruling party leaders illegally occupied the lands of the poor Dalits and other sections of society in the past four years, he added.

Ananda Babu asked Jagan whether he has given at least four cents of land in these four-and-half years to any Dalit under the Land Purchase Scheme. How the person, who has not allotted even a single cent of land to any Dalit or a Girijan in these four-and-half years, can get the power or the qualification to provide rights on these lands, the former minister asked.

Jagan managed to get his photos on the passbooks and on survey stones by conducting land surevys for merely namesake only for two times, Ananda Babu remarked. Now, in the name of third phase land survey, he has raied the curtains
to grand the assigned, 22A and other lands besides to the lands owned by Girijans, the TDP politburo member felt.

In the name of land distribution to the poor at Eluru, Jagan has spewed venom at former chief minister and TDP supremo, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Ananda Babu said. On the one side Jagan is saying that he is providing rights to the poor on their lands but on the other he has grabbed 14 lakh acres till now from the poor in the name of thermal power plants, SEZs and other reasons, he stated.

Those who are in the camp of Jagan have forcibly grabbed the lands of the Dalits and others while Vijayasai Reddy has illegaly taken over 40,000 acres in Visakhapatnam, Ananda Babu said. Why Jagan now providing rights to Dalits on the lands distributed to them by the successive governemnt since 1954, the former minister asked.

Taking advantage of the needs and their poor financial condition of Dalits, the YSRCP leaders have already taken possession of their lands and now Jagan is providing rights only to such persons but not to actual beneficiaries, Ananda Babu maintained.

The people are now regretting for having elected Jagan to power, Ananda Babu said, adding that he came to power by killing his own paternal uncle. The TDP politburo member is of the opinion that atrocities on Dalits are on the rise after Jagan came to power and the people of the State are well aware of his background and how he came to power.

The people are eagerly waiting for the Assembly elections to send Jagan home, Ananda Babu said and demanded Jagan to prove whether Chandrababu has made any objectionable comments on the Dalits.

Telugu Desam Party senior leader and former minister, Nakka Ananda Babu, on Tuesday termed Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, as a liar who levels baseless allegations against others to make the people believe.

“It has become a habit for Jagan to pass the buck on others only to safeguard himself and amend the laws to suit his taste,” Ananda Babu told media persons at the party headquarters. Jagan always believes that he can twist the laws to make the innocent people trust him, the TDP politburo member said.

Observing that Jagan mastered the art of passing the blame on others after committing nefarious crime, Ananda Babu gave the example of the murder of Vivekananda Reddy, his paternal uncle. “Jagan made every attempt to blame the TDP president, Chandrababu Naidu, for the murder,” he said.

Maintaining that it is Chandrababu Naidu, who revised the pension from Rs 200 to Rs 2000 during his tenure, Ananda Babu asked whether Jagan could prove that this is wrong. “In fact, it is Jagan who cheated the pensioners. Before elections, he promised to increase the pension to Rs 3,000 but cheated the pensioners stating that he will increase it by Rs 250 annually.

The TDP, without confining the pension scheme only to the poor, extended the benefit to artistes, fishermen and others too, he said and added that the whole credit of this goes to Chandrababu. How long can you rule the State by simply uttering lies, he asked.

Stating that even the ancestors of Jagan have a criminal record, Ananda Babu asked whether Jagan knows or not about who killed his uncle. He is a master in use and throw and this is proved in the case of his own sister and mother, the TDP politburo member said.

TDP politburo member and former minister, Nakka Ananda Babu, on Monday came down heavily on the Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, for renaming NTR Health University.

Ananda Babu said that the decision to rename the university is nothing but a part of the conspiracy to defame the former chief minister, late N T Rama Rao. The Chief Minister uttered blatant lies on the floor of the Assembly on changing the name of the varsity only to mislead not only the people of the State but also the whole nation, he observed.

Besides Jagan, other leaders like Lakshmi Parvathi too are taking some undue pleasure by resorting to this kind of deeds, the TDP politburo member felt. Monday’s media conference addressed by Lakshmi Parvathi is a classic example of this, he added.

Ananda Babu said that the Chief Minister, making the Assembly as a platform, told several lies on setting up medical colleges in the State. Chandarbabu Naidu, as the chief minister of the State, was behind the setting up of 24 medical colleges, including four government colleges, he said adding that the Tata Cancer Institute too was set up in the State during Naidu’s tenure.

Not only this, a total of 197 acres was alienated at Mangalagiri for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and all the necessary basic amenities were also provided for the institute during Chandrababu Naidu’s tenure, he pointed out. But, after Jagan Mohan Reddy came to power not even drinking water was provided to it, and this is nothing but resorting to vengeful attitude, he stated.

It is really ridiculous that when YSRCP MP, Vijaya Sai Reddy, the Accused 2, asked the Centre on December 14 about the number of medical college in the State, the Union Government told Parliament that the State has 14 colleges but Jagan told the Assembly that the State has only 11 such institutes. This clearly indicates that the Chief Minister has no proper understanding on the number of colleges too and it is really surprising that Jagan announced that he would set up 17 more medical colleges, Ananda Babu maintained.

NTR had established the health university in 1986 only with a view to bringing all the medical colleges under a common umbrella and thus setting up an example for the decentralisation of development, the TDP politburo member said. Later, Chandrababu continued it to further strengthen the medical education system, he maintained. The Assembly was totally misled by the video which was morphed at Sakshi studios, he added.

Hailing the High Court’s verdict to scrap the GO to make English education compulsory, senior TDP leader and former social welfare minister Nakka Anand Babu on Wednesday said the YSRCP ruling has set a record of sorts in the country by losing a series of court battles in a short time.

In a statement, the senior TDP leader said the Jagan-led government had lost 55 cases in the last 11 months which is a record set by any state government in losing court cases. “The High Court verdict should serve as a slap on the face of the YSRCP leadership. Three months back, our party’s council members in the Assembly opposed the Bill. However, the Assembly passed the Bill rejecting our proposals,” Anand Babu said.

The state government’s decision to make English medium instruction mandatory drew sharp criticism from various quarters and saw severe opposition from various political parties, but the government went ahead to amend the AP Education Act, 1982, and passed a Bill to incorporate the necessary provisions related to English medium of instruction.

Hearing a petition was filed by BJP leader Sudish Rambhotla and Guntupalli Srinivas, the High Court on Wednesday struck down the GO 81,85 to make English the compulsory medium of instruction in all government schools. The petitioners questioned the state government over the legality of the move to make English medium mandatory. The decision to make English medium instruction mandatory had stirred a hornet’s nest in Andhra Pradesh with some arguing that such a move will hurt the Telugu language while Dalit groups contended such a move will give equal access to English medium education to children from socio-economically disadvantaged communities.

Despite the criticism and opposition, the Jagan led AP government had issued a GO making English medium compulsory from class 1 to 8 in all government schools from the academic year 2020-21. After continued opposition, the government announced that only classes 1 to 6 would be converted to English medium in the first phase, adding one class to English medium in each subsequent year. The government even conducted a survey among parents who were asked to fill in form to choose between ‘English medium with Telugu as a compulsory subject’ or ‘Telugu medium.’