In Coastal Andhra Pradesh also, the YCP has got resounding victory. But, the ruling party’s dominant Reddy community is not strong enough in this region. Especially from Guntur to Srikakulam, Reddys are in a minority. As a result, CM Jagan Reddy has turned to the Kapus to use them effectively in his counter attacks against opposition. He is using Kapu Ministers to criticise Pawan Kalyan whenever Jana Senani agitates against the government’s policies.

But, non-YCP Kapu community leaders say that Jagan is maligning the image of their community by using their caste Ministers for all wrong reasons. In fact, Pawan criticised Vijayasai Reddy as a ‘Man Friday’ for he has to attend the CBI court in Rs. 43,000-Cr illegal assets cases of Jagan. To counter this, Kapu Minister Perni Nani came forward and called Pawan ‘Man Three Wives’.

Perni Nani went to the extent of calling Pawan Kalyan a casteist leader with lot of bias. He further said that Pawan may be a success like Gabbar Singh in cinema field but he will be a failure like Rabber Singh in politics.

On the other hand, another Kapu Minister Botsa Satyanarayana is getting all the bad name with regard to the demolition of Amaravati Capital City. No Reddy Minister and not even CM Jagan Reddy are making any comments. But Botsa is facing public anger everytime he talks giving hints on shifting Capital City without any clarity and with lots of confusion.

Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s failure to ensure adequate sand supplies in Andhra Pradesh has led to scores of construction workers committing suicides due to lack of work and livelihood besides rendering lakhs of workers jobless with construction activity coming to a halt across the state.

Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan already held a “long march” in Vizag against Jagan’s failure to provide sand, which was a huge hit.

TDP chief and former CM N Chandrababu Naidu has announced to sit on one day hunger strike on November 14 on sand shortage issues.

All these developments have put Jagan in a fix.

Feared at rising discontentment against his government, Jagan finally sprung into action today to address the sand shortage issue.

He directed officials to hold “Sand Week” from November 14 to 21 with the sole aim of taking up sand mining in all the sand reaches and increase sand supplies and availability across the state.

This is for the first time in the country that any CM has decided to conduct a special ‘sand week’ to ensure sand supplies.

This shows how severe the sand shortage in AP and how much criticism Jagan is facing from all quarters in AP for his inability to provide sand.

Jagan, who ignored all the demands for sand all these days finally was forced to act after Pawan and Chandrababu took to streets with the support of people.

Jagan selected November 14 to launch sand week, the day on which Naidu decided to sit on hunger strike. This shows how Naidu’s agitation programme has impacted Jagan.

AP CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his henchmen are boasting day in and day out that YSRCP government is saving hundreds of crores of public money in each project by going for ‘reverse tendering’ method.

Jagan made tall claims that he could save Rs 628 crore by going for reverse tenders for construction of Polavaram project and cancelling previous tenders issued by previous TDP government.

Now, Jagan’s government is quietly giving hundreds of crores of rupees to Polavaram contractor through backdoor methods.

In the name of increased price of sand and increase in GST, other taxes, CM Jagan is learnt to have approved payment of an excess amount of Rs 500 crore to contractor.

This would mean that Rs 500 crore out of Rs 628 crore savings claimed by Jagan through reverse tenders would go back again into the pockets of contractor.

This proves that Jagan’s tall claims of saving money through reverse tenders is nothing but a trash and divert people’s attention from real issues.

YSRCP chief and AP CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy has been proving himself time and again that he is a ‘copycat’ and lacks fresh ideas of his own to develop Andhra Pradesh.

Almost all the schemes or initiatives being launched by Jagan after he became CM were either copied from previous TDP government or neighbouring TRS government in Telangana.

The only thing Jagan does is he simply changed the names of schemes but the purpose of his schemes remain the same.

Jagan copied even name of KCR’s scheme “Kanti Velugu” and implementing the same in AP to provide free eye checkups to people.

The latest to be copied by Jagan is “Connect to Andhra” initiative.

This initiative was launched by TDP chief and former CM N Chandrababu Naidu, which was named as “Smart AP Foundation”. This is aimed to mobilse funds from philanthropists and from corporate companies under CSR (corporate social responsibility) and utilise them for the development of state, since AP’s financial condition is bad after bifurcation of state.

Jagan has now quietly changed this name to “Connect to Andhra”, with an aim to mobilise Rs 1,000 crore and utilise the same to implement “Navaratnalu”.

How over-ambitious Jagan is can be assessed with his targets?

Just about Rs 85 crore was donated by companies and others in 2018-19 when it was launched by TDP.

Jagan now boasts of mobilising Rs 1,000 crore per year, which everyone knows that it is next to impossible and this scheme too will get faded away very soon like other tall claims of Jaga

AP Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy is giving shock treatment to even the media in his typically inimitable Kadapa faction style. He appointed Sakshi employee Devulapalli Amar as AP government national media advisor to get good coverage for his government programmes in the national press. Amar innocently convinced the Press Council of India to hold the National Press Day celebrations in Vijayawada on November 16 in the hope of getting goodwill for Jagan Circar.

Unfortunately for the Press Council and Amar, Jagan’s media gag order came up in the form of GO 2430. Due to serious nature of it, the Council issued notices to the AP government to clarify on the intentions behind the GO. It told Jagan Regime that GO 2430 will not allow journalists to write stories without fear in the state. Apparently angry over this, CM Jagan cancelled the National Press Day celebrations in Vijayawada to give a rude shock to the Council. Now the Press Council has to tell delegates from India and abroad to reschedule their visit. It shifted the venue to Delhi and invited Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu who readily confirmed his participation.

Undoubtedly, YCP leaders are seeing Amar as a failure because of continuing negative stories in the national media against AP Government. The Press Council incident gave much more embarrassment to both Amar and Press Council.