Deputy Chief Ministers Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, P. Pushpa Sreevani, K. Narayana Swamy and Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari said in an open letter to former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu that though the job of village volunteers was difficult and salaries were nominal, the YSRCP activists had come forward to accept the responsibility of delivering citizen services at their doorstep, whereas his (Mr. Naidu’s) men (TDP workers) would shy away from it.
They questioned the reason for Mr. Naidu’s knee-jerk reaction to the government’s record-breaking feat of providing jobs to 1.25 lakh persons in less than four months, and why he could not do it when he was in power.
They also denied the allegation that there were irregularities in the conduct of the examinations for appointing staff in the village secretariats and village volunteers.
Mr. Naidu did not even have the idea that the administration could be streamlined by setting up village and ward secretariats, and he was spreading falsehood when the YSRCP government not only conceived but gave it a tangible shape in such a short span.
In the letter, the Deputy CMs said a majority of those who emerged successful in the examinations were from the Backward Classes, SCs, STs and minorities, which was not to the liking of Mr. Naidu.
‘Prove charges’
Pedana MLA and YSRCP spokesman Jogi Ramesh challenged Mr. Naidu to prove the leakage of question papers given for the village secretariat recruitment examination.
Addressing the media at the party office at Tadepalli in Guntur district, Mr. Ramesh said that Mr. Naidu spread rumours that the question papers were leaked on the basis of reports published by a Telugu daily, and that he was prepared to sit face-to-face with Mr. Naidu and the editor of the newspaper to put facts before people.
