Jagan unveils ‘welfare agenda’

To launch padayatra from Idupulapaya on October 27

July 10, 2017 12:32 am | Updated 12:32 am IST - AMARAVATI

Target 2019:  YSRCP president Y.S . Jagan Mohan Reddy blows the conch at the plenary on Sunday.

Target 2019: YSRCP president Y.S . Jagan Mohan Reddy blows the conch at the plenary on Sunday.

About two years ahead of the polls in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress Party national president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday promised that he would take a series of measures aimed at bettering the lot of farmers and other sections of people if elected to power.

Mr. Jagan made these promises on the concluding day of the party plenary.

Virtually blowing the election bugle, he told party workers to tell the people in their villages that ‘anna’ was coming, implying he was going to become Chief Minister in 2019.

Sops to farmers

Earlier, Mr. Jagan’s mother Vijayamma and sister Sharmila, who held the fort when he was in jail, said the YSR family would never go back on its promises.

Mr. Jagan called his election strategist Prashant Kishor on to the dais and introduced him to the delegates.

Unveiling ‘YSR Rythu Bharosa Pathakam,’ the YSRC chief said farmers having holdings of five acres or less would be given ₹ 50,000 over four years under the scheme. Eighty-six per cent of the farmers in the State, numbering about 66 lakh, would benefit. He said a price stabilisation fund of ₹3,000 crore and a calamity fund of ₹2,000 crore would be created to give security to farmers. He said both the Arogyasri and fee reimbursement schemes introduced by his father were watered down by the TDP government. Improved versions of the schemes would be implemented to ensure better coverage. He said 25 lakh houses would be constructed and the property would be registered to the woman of the house the day it was handed over. Mr. Jagan said curbs on liquor consumption would be introduced in a phased manner. An allowance would be paid to children of BPL families to encourage them to go to school.

Mr. Jagan said he would launch a padayatra from his father’s tomb in Idupulapaya in Kadapa on October 27 and go straight to Tirumala to have Lord Venkateswara’s darshan. After offering prayers there, he would walk from Ichchapuram to Tada staying in the villages overnight.

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