Kalava demands dismissal of Jogi Ramesh from Assembly
The Hindu
Jagan should condemn bid to attack Ayyanna, he says
YSR Congress Party workers’ bid to attack the former Minister Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu by picketing his house in Narsipatnam on Saturday was an instigation from Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, alleged TDP Polit Bureau member Kalava Srinivasulu. He sought a statement from the Chief Minister condemning the act of his partymen.
TDP leaders and workers on Saturday staged a dharna at the Mahatma Gandhi statue near Clock Tower Circle here and demanded the dismissal of Pedana MLA Jogi Ramesh from the Assembly for his alleged attack on the TDP cadres and the bid to picket the house of party chief and Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravati on Friday.
“The wild, anti-democratic governance of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was visible when he did not stop his partymen from taking the law into their hands and the State police are hand in glove with the ruling party as they did not stop such a large crowd from proceeding towards Mr. Ayyanna Patrudu’s house,” Mr. Srinivasulu told reporters. In both incidents, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy should be made Accused No. 2 (A2) as these incidents happened with his full knowledge, the TDP leader alleged.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists