Dt: 27/12/18
12/6/20
Moral Turpitude to Public Life
Dr T H Chowdary*
Sri Naidu used to declare that his government is committed to SMART – Simple Moral Accountable Responsive & Transparent in its working . He used to talk about ethical government, responsive to people and free of corruption . But come to year 2014 and weight his actions in the light of SMART. Here are most immoral acts, spending public money for self as well as squandering.
· His own private house in Jubilee Hills is declared as the Camp Residence of the C.M of A.P! This is just like say, Mamata Banerjee, C.M of West Bengal having a camp residence in Bhuvaneswar ! All the expenses on security and maintenance , electricity and telephones etc., are all paid by the Government of Andhra Pradesh
· When his former house was broken up to construct the new present house, during the period of construction, a private house was hired at a huge monthly rent. It was equipped for security and other essentials for the residence and office of the CM while on camp. He could have stayed in the Lake Vies Guest House. The fact is that his family was (and is) staying the C.M’s camp residence then and now. That is another misuse of public money for self.
· The Lake View Guest House in Hyderabad was allotted to A.P as Hyderabad was to serve as the joint capital of A.P and Telangana for 10 years. This is vacant and is hardly used but the expenditure on its maintenance and security arrangements are incurred by GOAP.
· In Delhi, the CM of AP was allotted a Bunglow on Janpath Road, Rs. Cr were reported to have been spent upon its one-time fitment to the Chief Minister’s stay while in Delhi.
· In 2014-15, in the common Secretariat in Hyderabad the A.P C.Ms rooms did incur an expense of between Rs. 5 to 10 cr re-orienting and refurnishing them.
· 60% of the accommodation in the combined A.P Secretariat in Hyderabad is still in the possession of A.P with all rooms locked up . The C.M AP and the Secretariat had moved to Guntur- Vijayawada – Mangalagiri are in A.P. Precious accommodation in Hyderabad is thus locked up without being used by anybody.
2. Sri Naidu did not give any explanation as to why while the capital could be in Hyderabad for 10 years, himself and the Secretariat of A.P and the Commissionerate etc, had all been moved to Guntur-Vijayawada -Amaravati region within 3 years.
In the 10 year period allowed, the buildings required for the ministries, Commissionerate and directorates and the Secretariat could have been gradually built up in the new capital city Amaravati.
While the Sivaramakrishnan Committee for selectin the location for the capital of A.P recommended Dona Konda area (Kurnool Dist) , which is all government property, Sri Naidu decided on the green field agricultural ra in Guntur district . What is acquired is not small but more than 30,000 acres of agricultural land
When new states of Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand were created, none of their capital extended over 30,000 acres. No new state received thousands of crores of rupees for capital construction. The Chief Minister is estimating the cost of constructing the capital to be between Rs. 40,000 crores and one lakh crores for the capital city and is demanding that all that money should come from the Center !
People know that development of a city, its business houses, residences for citizens and shopping complexes are not built by the government but by the pubic themselves over a period of time.
A dream city of Sri Naidu’s imagination was never built anywhere in the world, within 5 to 10 years.
The Center should pour money to build up his (Naidu’s) glory and to under-write his electoral victories and his and his dynasty’s (His son is an MLC and cabinet minister, his brother-in-law and Sambadhi is MLA)
3. Personal aggrandisement: A number of welfare measures as well as some development programs are named after himself as Chandranna Kanukalu (gifts) . No Prime Minister , nt even Indira Gandhi, ever named any welfare measure after his/her own name.
Various kanukalu on the occasion of marriage, pregnancy, festivals are all named after Sri Chandrababu himself.
4. Bribing Muslims & Christians: A big conclave of Muslims was got with the slogans : Nara hamara TDP hamara”. Nara is the intiperu ( special to Telugu, illustrious persons are commonly referred to by their intiperu like nara varu, kodali varu etc ). Nara also means slogan. One can see that the convention was facilitated at government expense and the Chief Minister told Muslims that his government would bring in a special law to prevent atrocities (!) against Muslims (by Hindus).
Many reformers were born in Bharat who among others, campaigned for abolition of caste. Dr B r Ambedkar’s life long campaign was for annihilation of caste. Naidu’s Chie Ministership pf AP, since 2014 is seeing the “permanentification” of caste. He has created state owned welfare corporations for several castes – Kapu, Brahmins, Vysyas… there is strife among these caste associations saying that justice is not done to their caste in proportion to its (self-claimed) population. If the population of different castes claimed by their associations is to be taken to be true the population of A.P is 9 crs and not 5 crs as it is according to the census.