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Plaintive Submission From A Nationalist And BJP-Supporting And Defending Very Sr. Citizen (92 Years) & Padma Sree Awardee
Dt: 17/8/23
Plaintive Submission From A Nationalist And BJP-Supporting And Defending
Very Sr. Citizen (92 Years) & Padma Sree Awardee
-Dr T.H.Chowdary*
1. Economic, Social And Ethical Devastation of A.P Under The Chief Ministership of
Sri Jaganmohan Reddy (2019---) and Giveaways in AP : A large number of giveaway schemes styled Navaratna as comprehensive welfare , all named after his father or himself by Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh are causing devastation of AP. The debt of the state is over Rs. 8 lakh cr including the state guarantees for the debt incurred by the state- owned corporations. About 80% of the homes in AP are receiving about Rs. 48,000 per year through direct bank transfer (DBT) . There is no development of infrastructure (roads, electricity, hospitals….). People have largely given up work ethic which is substituted by welfare receipts. People are not worried about repayments of the debt incurred or the burden of interest payment by the state because they will not be personally called upon to pay it from their own resources. It is the state that will have to repay and service the debt.
2. Write offs of the Debt : Sri Jagan can plead for the write off of all the loans incurred by the state on the analogy that if the state owned banks can write off more than Rs. 10 lakh cr loans not repaid by individuals who have defrauded the banks, the debt incurred by the state is only for the welfare of the poor and therefore has got every justification to be written off.
3. Caste related welfare corporations: Sri Chandra Babu Naidu during his rule (2014-19) created three caste based state welfare corporations for Brahmins, Vysyas and Kapus. Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy has created about 40 of them for as many caste groups. This is leading to inter caste strife among Hindus, each group claiming more welfare money on the strength of inflated population figures for its caste. Apart from the evil effects of the state incurred debt , these corporations promote strife among Hindus .
4. BJP Complicit with Jagan: There is widespread belief among thinking people in AP and elsewhere that the BJP government and the BJP leaders are complicit in the extravagance of populism in AP to get votes for the YSRCP. It is held that there is absolutely no chance for the BJP ever getting into power in AP except in alliance with and as a gift from one of the strong regional parties . Therefore the BJP is held to be happy with the support of the YSRCP MPs in the Parliament for the BJP. Worse; it is widely believed that Sri Jagan is giving hundreds of crores of rupees periodically to the BJP. So these two reasons that is, support in the parliament and cash gifts to BJP are what are keeping the BJP government is silent about the misgovernance and misdeeds of Sri Jagan .
5. Amaravati was hailed to be the capital of AP. The foundation stone for it was laid by no less a person than Sri Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India himself . While in the opposition, Sri Jagan fully supported the choice of Amaravati as capital. But after getting into power, he abandoned Amaravati for his obsessive scheme of three capitals for the state – Visakhapatnam, Amaravati and Kurnool. Visakhapatnam in the north- east corner of the state is very expensive to reach for the people of Rayalaseema in the down south of the state. They are opposed to the three capitals. Just a High Court in Kurnool is not going to satisfy them. The BJP while giving over -all support to the afflicted Amaravati farmers who had surrendered 40,000 acres for the capital to come, appears to be not serious about holding Jagan strictly to the single capital Amaravati. It appears that since Naidu’s real estate ( benami ) men benefit by Amaravati, Jagan’s men are for Visakhapatnam where they are heavily investing in acquisition of land.
6. Amaravati as Slum: In order to preempt Amaravati as a full-fledged capital, the highly valuable and priced agricultural lands that were made over by the farmers are now being built upon for housing the poor with 48 sq.yd for each poor person not from Amaravati but from areas outside Amaravati . That means a slum will come up instead of a glorious capital in Amaravati. The Telugu people are not forgiving only the YSRCP but they denounce the BJP also for the betrayal.
7. Thousands of Churches are Planted : No worthwhile industry or investment has come in all the years of Sri Jagan’s rule in AP. Christian propaganda and the planting of churches in government lands has been going on with the silent support of the Christian Chief Minister and Christian government officers, especially in the police department encouraging such illegal construction.
Five years ago I sensed that there would be Hindu – Christian riots in AP and wrote an article on this subject (attached). It is coming true now. One district is carved out for them - Dr Ambedkar Konaseema district with Amalapuram as its chief town in the East Godavari district. This is just like Malappuram carved out of Malabar as a Muslim majority district - like Mewat / Nus out of Gurgaon in Haryana and Malerkotla in Punjab. In fact, Christians in AP are saying that if there could be a Muslim First program ( launched by the UPA government in 2004-‘14) why could there not be a Christian minority first development program in pockets of certain districts.
8. The criticism of the BJP in AP in regard to Sri Jagan and his government is widely believed to be absolutely insincere and proforma. They believe that the central leadership is complicit with the Jagan government for his money. In Telangana the widely held belief that BJP is a serious contender for dislodging the TRS from power is waning . The central BJP has criticized Telangana Chief Minister and his party but never criticized the Jagan government and Jagan in AP. This supports the view of the people in AP that the BJP is complicit in the misdeds and the mis-governance of Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy.
9. BJP in Telangana: In the sister Telugu state of Telangana also the BJP is coming into severe criticism for not arresting Kavita MLC , the daughter of Chief Minister Sri K Chandrasekhara Rao in the Delhi liquor case after the ED had questioned her a number of times . It is widely talked about that about Rs. 5000 cr had been paid by the TRS /the Chief Ministers family to the BJP to see that Kavita is not arrested. A wave in favour of BJP was building up under Bandi Sanjay’s leadership but all that collapsed with the non-arrest of Smt. Kavita in the Delhi liquor scam and later easing out Bandi Sanjay ji from Presidentship of the BJP in Telangana.
10. The BJP’s MLAs and MPs in Telangana are not a united lot. If one of them is active the rest of them are sullenly silent. The Congress in Telangana which lost deposits in the bye-election is now on the up and up especially after its success in the Karnataka Assembly polls. With election to the Legislative Assembly only a few months away there is almost no worthwhile effort on the BJP in Telangana to take on the TRS.
11. Telangana’s Phenomenal Development: Undoubtedly Telangana through many projects has become a prosperous state. The PCI at Rs.3,20,000 is perhaps the highest in the country. 9 years ago it was lower than in many states . Telangana also borrowed just like AP but it invested most of it in irrigation and electricity projects. It will be able to service the debt because of the huge agricultural and industrial (software) output . The software exports from the state had increased from about Rs. 55,000 cr in 2014 to about 2.2 lakh cr in the year 2023. One third of the persons recruited in the software / IT companies in the country are in Hyderabad. Telangana has become the granary of India overtaking Punjab and other states. Thousands of labourers from Bihar, Bengal , UP and Jharkhand are working in Telangana in agricultural, industrial and real estate sectors. Once the Palamuru that is, Mahaboobnagar district labour was migrated to Bombay; now no one goes out of Telangana for a job outside the state . There are plenty of jobs in the state itself. In Telangana too there are populist schemes like Dalita Bandhu and Minority Bandhu . The state can afford because of its affluence.
12. Cooking Gas Cylinder Price:
Pradhanamanthri ji has weaned away even the poor house wives from the use of coal and wood and cow dung cakes in the kitchen. The alternative of cooking gas cylinders at over Rs. 1,100 each is pinching. Millions of house holders and millions are upset and angry . The steep rise in onion prices brought down BJP’s Sushma Swaraj’s government in Delhi. A huge money is spent on subsidies for fertilizers , farmers are pleased with loan waivers, DBTs; can’t the cooking gas price be subsidized , asks every house wife. Modi ji may please bring down the cooking cylinder price well before 2024 elections to Lok Sabha. Lest, a wrath of the house wives, even the poor among them may adversely affect the BJP’s chances of wining the Lok Sabha elections.
13. Government’s Raids on the Corrupt: E.D, CBI and It have raided and investigated the corrupt politicians including the ( Italian-origin) “Gandhi” clan, ministers of TMC, DMK, JMM, NCP, TRS , RJD and SP. Plenty of cash had been confiscated. But to what end? To collect money, to expose corruption and venality ? Should they be arraigned in courts/ Why is the CBI Special Court, Hyderabad so kind to Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, accused in several corruption cases? He is “exempted” from trial, courtesy a former CJ of Supreme Court and BJP government, as most people in the Telugu states believe. BJP is decisively talked of as a washing machine because of the corrupt join the BJP, they are getting free from corruption charges and raids and investigation. This affair of ED/ IT/ CBI raids / interrogation followed by inaction is getting bad name for the BJP and the integrity of its supporters like me is being questioned.
14. The general situation is that there are few or no mass leaders for the BJP in states. The state units are depending only upon the Great leader, Sri Narendra Modi. This is unhealthy and tends to build a personality cult with attendant risks and dangers . Jawaharlal Nehru pseudonymous article (appended) “ Rashtrpati” by Chanakya in Nov 1937 may kindly be gone through .
15. I have been and still an ardent supporter of and voter for the Jana Sangh /BJP since 1967. I have written thousands of articles and hundreds of PPTs about development in Telangana, AP and India. All are at my website : www.drthchowdary.net . It will show how many articles I have written about what is happening in the Telugu states in particular and India in general for re-nationalising our people . I feel very sad that the BJP is failing in building upon the national upsurge that its victory in 2014 and 2019 for the Lok Sabha had promised. May be it is not too late for Sri Narendra Modi and the BJP to realise the causes responsible for the party’s plight in AP and Telangana in particular and in South India in general. It is sad for me to hear that many people are now characterizing the BJP as a North Indian party.
16. I pray for the victory of BJP led by the phenomenal Sri Narendra Modi. I request this long letter from a sincere super-senior ( 92 young to enter 93rd on 18 Oct 2023) Bharatiya be taken as mitra vaakyam and not an abhyasooyakas’ bakwaash.
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