Three days after the government’s decision to cancel the land allotted to the Saraswati Power in Guntur district, YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy said on Sunday that they would set up the cement unit on the acquired land, come what may.
Alleging that the farmers’ protest at his Lotus Pond residence in Hyderabad on Saturday was stage-managed by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said: “The evil spirit of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was out again on Sunday as it was evident from the police cane-charging the farmers who went to meet him. It is at Mr. Naidu’s behest, farmers were brought from Guntur on Saturday and were made to stage protest with the police help.”
Speaking after meeting the farmers from Dachepalli and Machavaram mandals in Guntur district, who came here to meet him on Sunday, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy said, adding that the cement unit would come up even by knocking the doors of courts.
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“We had bought land at Rs. 3 lakh per acre for setting up the cement factory only to see smiles on the faces of farmers of the area,” the YSRC president said, alleging that the State government was denying necessary permissions for setting up the unit. Saying that the cancellation of limestone mining lease was a part of ‘political vendetta’, he said that it was a shame on the government that no factory had come up in Dachepally-Machavaram area though seven companies had secured clearances for setting up their units. He sought to know as to why the government had not cancelled the land allotted to a cement company belonging TDP MP J.C. Diwakar Reddy.