AP people’s expectations are rising but the delivery of services is falling short. Amid this, warning bells started ringing already for the ruling YCP leaders. No Opposition leader has addressed a roadside public meeting in recent times in Andhra Pradesh. But, as part of his road show, Jana Senani Pawan Kalyan addressed a public meeting in the heart of Gudivada town. Without any great mobilizat on the part of the Jana Sena, a large number of people attend the meeting. Pawan’s show turned out to be a huge success going by how the crowd kept giving a cheering, good response to his aggressive speech.

Also, Nara Lokesh took out a low profile ‘Rythu Kosam’ tour which also got a good response. The success of meetings of Opposition leaders has come as a rude shock to the ruling YCP leaders and cadres.

That too, Pawan’s meet took place in an assembly segment which is represented by Minister Kodali Nani, who has emerged the strongest YCP leader in Coastal Andhra. Pawan had made lots of sarcastic remarks against Kodali that were well received by the crowd. Senani has gone to the extent of mockingly saying that Kodali Nani should stop playing second fiddle to CM Jagan Reddy regardless of his Government’s misdeeds.

Analysts say that the rival leaders’ shows had certainly set the warning bells ringing for the YCP. In just 19 months of its rule, the ruling YCP was facing public heartburn in different aspects. From the farmers’ problems to ration cards to students’ issues, the Government is under huge stress to satisfy all these sections. Clearly, YSR Jagananna cash transfer programmes would not be solely enough to satisfy the people.

The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday transferred two senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, J. Syamala Rao and K. Sunitha, and relieved a couple more from full additional charges.

“Rao, on transfer, is posted as officer on special duty in the water resources department. He shall assume the charge of the post of secretary to the government, water resources department,” said Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney.

He will take the new role after Aditya Nath Das succeeds Sawhney on December 31.

Rao is an IAS officer from the 1997 batch while Das belongs to the 1987 batch.

K. Sunitha, secretary to the government in the finance department has been transferred and posted as secretary, social welfare department.

In the finance department, she was in-charge of new revenue generating projects taken up by different departments within the finance department.

The 1996 batch officer will relive Budithi Rajsekhar from full additional charge (FAC) of the social welfare department. Rajskehar belongs to the 1992 batch.

Sunitha has also been placed with the FAC of the post of vice chairman and managing director, AP Scheduled Caste Cooperative Finance Corporation Ltd, again reliving Rajsekhar.

Meanwhile, Y. Srilakshmi, a 1988 batch IAS officer, who is waiting for posting has been posted as secretary to the government, municipal administration and urban development, relieving Rao.

The YCP leaders and cadres are celebrating the 47th birthday anniversary of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy all over the Telugu States. The day also marked wide publicity campaigns. The Government also gave front page paper advertisements to coincide with the Jagananna B’day utsav.

While there is this celebratory mood everywhere, CM Jagan is giving his own gift to the people of AP to mark his birthday. He is launching the ‘YSR Jagananna Sasvata Bhuhakku, Bhuraksha Pathakam’. He is inaugurating its pilot project at Takkellapadu village in Krishna district. This project is aimed at bringing revolutionary changes in land records. A comprehensive re-survey is being taken up using drones after nearly a century.

As part of this, the Chief Minister is going to launch the drones meant for conducting this re-survey at a meeting being held at Jaggaiahpet SGS College. In a phased manner, the project would be taken up all over the State. The re-survey will cover over 1.26 cr hectares of land in AP.

CM Jagan has already announced that all steps were taken to avoid any burden on the farmers as the Government was bearing the cost of the resurvey to the tune of Rs. 967 Cr.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said the state government turned backward classes (BCs) into backbone classes, with the empowerment of weaker sections socially, economically and politically.

He said a movement like this was not taken up anywhere else in the country as he spoke at the BC Sankranti Sabha, which saw hundreds of community leaders converge at one place on Thursday.

All the directors and chairpersons of the newly created 56 BC corporations were sworn in on the occasion as Reddy said that Sankranti festival has set in early.

To all the newly sworn in leaders, he advised them that position is not power but responsibility, asking them to strive to uplift those people left out of welfare programmes.

“Setting up 56 BC corporations and appointing 728 BC leaders, from 139 castes in the posts of directors and chairmen is history which was initiated by only AP government,” highlighted Reddy.

Out of the new appointees, the CM noted 29 chairmen and 336 directors were women.

Andhra Pradesh had made laws in implementing 50 per cent reservation for BC, SC, ST and minorities and women in all nominated posts and contracts.

The Chief Minister criticized the earlier Telugu Desam Party (TDP) government for allegedly betraying BCs and breaking their backs.

AP Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has been fighting a long drawn battle against the Chief Justice and Judges of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. His Government targetted Chief Justice Maheswari by writing a letter to the Chief Justice of India already. Now, the Jagan regime has directed its ire at AP High Court Judge Justice Rakesh Kumar. It went to such an extent that the Government filed a petition seeking Justice Rakesh Kumar to step down from hearing the case regarding the Mission Build AP.

The YCP Government contended that it would not get justice if Justice Rakesh Kumar continued to hear the case. It was because the judge was prejudiced and he was passing comments against the Government. Justice Rakesh Kumar had gone to the extent of saying that the Constitutional machinery broke down in Andhra Pradesh. If he was allowed to hear the cases on Mission Build AP, there was a chance that he might take a partial stand.

The Government filed its affidavit in this regard and it said that the judiciary should not encroach upon the duties of the legislature or the executive. There was a Supreme Court order saying that a petitioner can ask for stepping down of a judge if he feels that the judge concerned may act partially.