Chairman of the AP Brahmin Welfare Corporation Vemuri Anand Surya on Wednesday said the government would ensure top priority to the welfare of the community.
Speaking to media persons at the TDP State office here, Mr. Anand Surya, who was appointed to the post on Tuesday, said Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu allocated ₹100 crore for the financial year 2016-17 and added the budget would be scaled up every year. He took pot-shots against his predecessor and former Chief Secretary IYR Krishna Rao, saying the latter had tried to use the corporation as his personal fiefdom. He said it was untrue that the Chief Minister had refused to give appointment to Mr. Krishna Rao over the last six months and added that all the five directors had met Mr. Naidu in the last five months.
“I respect the seniority of Mr. Krishna Rao but it is unfair to target the CM who has set up a welfare corporation for Brahmins for the first time in the country. He was given complete freedom in the corporation,” Mr. Surya said.
YSRC MLA slams CM
Meanwhile, Bapatla YSRC MLA K. Raghupati, said the sacking of Mr. Krishna Rao showed the CM’s ‘high- handedness’ against a senior bureaucrat.
Referring to recent programme held at the AP HRD Institute at Bapatla which had stoked up controversy after the TDP leaders objected to his presence, Mr. Raghupati said that he had been invited as he was the local MLA.
“I attended the programme by the corporation and also invited Mr. Krishna Rao for tea at my residence. Why are the TDP leaders making an issue out of it?’’ Mr. Raghupati questioned.
