YSRCP targets Ministers over caste certificate row, farmer distress and governance failures

The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders connected Monday launched a crisp onslaught connected the conjugation government, accusing its Ministers of misleading the nationalist and pushing farmers and susceptible communities into distress.

At a property league held astatine the enactment office, YSRCP East Godavari territory president and erstwhile Minister Chelluboina Srinivasa Venu Gopala Krishna criticised Labour Minister Vasamshetty Subhash for his “ignorance and deliberate falsehoods” regarding the inclusion of Gowda successful the Setti Balija caste certificates. He said the Minister was confusing a Government Memo with a Government Order (G.O.) and spreading misinformation to blasted the YSRCP.

Mr. Venu Gopala Krishna reminded that G.O. No. 16—originally issued during Chandrababu Naidu’s tenure successful 1997—was ne'er implemented by immoderate authorities until the contiguous conjugation began enforcing it from July 30, 2025. Challenging Mr. Subhash to a nationalist debate, helium vowed to apologise if it was proven that the YSRCP had issued oregon enforced the bid and demanded that the Minister bash likewise if proven wrong. He accused Mr. Subhash of betraying the Setti Balija assemblage and attempting to screen up the government’s actions with a misinformation run and idiosyncratic attacks.

In a abstracted property conference, YSRCP wide caput Gadikota Srikanth Reddy lashed retired astatine the NDA authorities for “turning agriculture into a regular tragedy,” alleging that farmers crossed Andhra Pradesh were suffering owed to the withdrawal of input subsidies, deficiency of relief, and illness of harvest prices.

He said that kharif cultivation successful respective regions had dropped beneath 15%, with tenant farmers near to fend for themselves. Accusing the authorities of dismantling Rythu Bharosa Kendras (RBKs), denying harvest insurance, enabling trader exploitation, and allowing rampant onshore grabbing, Mr. Srikanth Reddy warned that instrumentality and bid had sharply deteriorated nether the coalition’s rule.