Dt: 29/1/19
Friend of the Friendless Poor, BCs, SCs, STs, and Minorities !
Dr T H Chowdary*
Sri Chandra Babu Naidu garu, Chief Minister of AP deserves to be congratulated for day after day showering kanukalu (gifts) on various sections of the population. These ranged from crediting thousands of rupees to lakhs to DWACRA women, doubling the pensions, creating caste-wise and religion-wise welfare corporations and Community Bhavans; giving away plots of government land to the poor, unverified lakhs of 2BHK houses for the poor and waiver of tens of thousands of crores of rupees of loan for farmers, free electricity, washing machinesfor washermen, sewing machines for tailors, shaving machines snd scissors for barbers, smart phones& laptops for varieties of peole and so on. Some more kanukalu we can expect in the next few weeks until the elections to the AP’s legislative assembly and the Lok Sabha are announced . In the meanwhile, he should set an example of his personal concern for the poor . Apart from what he is giving out from the government treasury he may do the following:
2. Increase the salaries of the employees in the Heritage Company owned by his family in the following way:
· 100% for minorities and STs, 75% for SCs and 50% for BCs. He may call upon the private companies in AP to give such increase in their companies also with a promise that he will reimburse whatever the private companies give to the above categories of their employees.
· Promotion of inter-caste and inter-religious marriages to offset the evil that may come out of his creation of caste-wise and religion-wise welfare corporations in AP leading to the permanentification of caste and religion-based separatism. A gift of Rs.5 lakhs if a Hindu girl marries a Muslim boy; Rs. 2.5 lakhs if a Muslim girl marries a Hindu boy; if the forward caste boys marry ST or minority girl Rs.5 lakhs; if he marries an SC girl Rs. 4 lakhs; if he marries BC girl Rs.3 lakhs.
· Education certificates for the poor, minorities, SCs, STs and BCs: Reservation may be made in the award of distinctions, first class and pass for all the above categories of students to ensure 90% pass for ST ,SC and minority students.
· Langar that is free food service for SCs, STs and minorities: Half rate for BCs; and for all the above categories even in private hotels with assurance that the difference will be reimbursed by government on production of receipts from the private hotels.
3. With the above measures, it can be expected that the TDP will surely get 25 MPs and 150 MLAs in the next elections so that the Dharma Poratam could wrest special category for AP from whichever party forms government at the center and Sri Naidu ji can decide who should be the PM of India. (459 words)
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