Agriculture Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy on Tuesday said YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy owed an explanation on the alleged reference to his name in the disclosures made in the Paradise Papers. “It is not just the CBI and the ED that are after Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy. According to media reports, his name also figures in the list of people linked to offshore accounts,” he told the media here on the eve the “anti-black money day.”
The Opposition leader owed an explanation to the people on the disproportionate assets allegedly amassed by him when his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was the Chief Minister, which included a palatial bungalow at Yelahanka in Bengaluru, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy, the Minister in charge of Kadapa district, said while referring to the Paradise Papers issue.
‘Intemperate language’
Taking exception to the alleged impolite language being used by the Opposition leader against the Chief Minister during his ‘Praja Sankalpa Yatra’, he said the YSRCP would continue its losing streak in the general elections too if he continued to use such language.
The Minister, who earlier interacted with farmers uncovered by the loan waiver scheme, said the government would not rest till all farmers were benefited.
Loan waiver
Despite fiscal deficit, the government implemented the loan waiver scheme on a scale not taken up by any other State, including the revenue-surplus Telangana.
A delegation from Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra visited Andhra Pradesh that emerged as a model in the implementation of the scheme and States such as Punjab and Karnataka evinced interest in taking a cue from Andhra Pradesh, the Minister said.
“We don’t expect Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy to shower praise on the government. But it is unfair to say the government belied the hopes of debt-ridden farmers when it waived their dues amounting to ₹25,600 crore,” he said, adding that farmers in Kadpa district alone benefited to the tune of ₹21.90 crore.
The government would go from one district to another to amend the wrong entry of details pertaining to Aadhaar card, ration card, survey number, SB account number, he added.
