Rural development suffered a setback during YSRCP’s tenure, alleges TDP MLC

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLC Alapati Rajendra Prasad connected Friday alleged that agrarian improvement successful Andhra Pradesh suffered a terrible setback during the tenure of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). 

“It is an irony that the YSRCP leaders are talking astir colony payment aft destroying the Panchayat Raj strategy successful the State during their five-year tenure,” Mr. Rajendra Prasad told the media astatine the TDP cardinal office.

He accused erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of diverting funds meant for colony development, weakening constitutionally elected sarpanches, and moving a parallel strategy done volunteers.

He alleged large-scale irregularities successful schemes specified arsenic MGNREGS and Jal Jeevan Mission, claiming that thousands of crores of rupees were misused, portion villages were near without basal infrastructure.

The MLC alleged that farmers suffered immensely during the erstwhile regime, citing rising husbandman suicides, procurement issues, and the arguable onshore titling system. He said nationalist choler implicit these policies resulted successful the YSRCP winning conscionable 11 Assembly seats successful the 2024 elections.

Highlighting the conjugation government’s initiatives, Mr. Rajendra Prasad said pending dues of ₹1,674 crore of panchayats were cleared wrong a period of assuming office.

“The authorities is reviving villages done ‘Palle Panduga’ programme, constructing roads, h2o tanks, and workplace ponds, and releasing Finance Commission funds to reconstruct existent colony self-governance,” helium added.