Former minister and YSRC leader Dharmana Prasada Rao on Friday denied reports that he is joining BJP. Addressing a gathering of YSRC protesters on the issue of loan waiver at the district collectorate here, he said such reports were baseless and speculative while declaring himself as a diehard loyalist of the YSRC family.
He accused some sections of media of joining hands with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in his allegedly sinister designs to wipe out the YSRC. That was the reason why a section of the media was trying to sending confusing signals across the YSRC ranks, he said.
The former minister said the Chief Minister continued to deceive farmers and SHG women by imposing a slew of restrictions on waiver of farm loans and SHG loans and in effect his loan waiver promise got diluted altogether at the end of the day.
Questioning Mr. Chandrababu’s claims of delivering good governance, Mr. Prasada Rao said the rumblings over the recent transfer of government officials in the north coastal Andhra right in the middle of the year was only a pointer for bad governance during the TDP regime.
Another former minister Kothapalli Subbarayudu accused the government of creating hurdles for the YSRC functionaries to join the dharna programme from different parts of the district. He said he had booked 25 APSRTC buses by making advance payments to the RTC authorities to transport his party functionaries from Narsapur to Eluru for the dharna programme.
But the RTC refused to provide any bus service in the last minute forcing him to bring his followers in a fleet of hired taxis, he said. The party district president Alla Kalikrishna Srinivas (Nani) led the dharna programme.
