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Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Andhra Pradesh portion president Palla Srinivasa Rao refuted YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s allegations that the NDA authorities had failed to support the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP).
“Had the NDA not travel to powerfulness successful 2024, the VSP would person been privatised by now,” Mr. Srinivasa Rao toldf the media astatine the TDP bureau successful Visakhapatnam connected Wednesday, soon aft Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy visited the city.
The erstwhile Chief Minister indispensable retrieve that the workers’ unions utilized to signifier protests against the projected privatisation of the VSP during the YSRCP tenure. The protestation camps were withdrawn lone aft the NDA assumed power, helium said.
The TDP person besides took a excavation astatine the workers’ unions. “Some national representatives who are present lasting with Mr. Jagan had earlier told maine that bringing astir ₹3,000 crore would revive the alloy works to profits. But the NDA authorities facilitated a fiscal bundle of ₹ 11,440 crore for the plant,” helium said.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao said A.P. had extended ‘unprecedented fiscal assistance’ to a Central authorities enterprise. He claimed that the State authorities had spent astir ₹2,600 crore to enactment the alloy plant. “The YSRCP, during its tenure, continued to cod energy dues from the works connected the archetypal time of each month, contempt its fiscal struggles,” helium said.
On the contented of compensation and rehabilitation for the families affected by the caller blast, the Gajuwaka MLA said that isolated from status and statutory benefits, the authorities has promised imperishable employment to eligible household members of the deceased workers.
“The authorities volition guarantee these jobs are provided wrong 90 days. The indispensable measures volition beryllium implemented to fortify information standards,” helium said.
Meanwhile, Home Minister V. Anitha besides pointed retired that the VSP workers’ unions had protested for hundreds of days against the projected privatisation during the YSRCP’s tenure. “Yet, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy had ne'er visited the protestation campy oregon the plant. When workers had sought to conscionable him, Mr. Jagan invited a fewer representatives to the airdrome alternatively of visiting the alloy works himself,” she said.
