Former Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who came to his native constituency Pulivendula for the first time after YSRCP’s crushing defeat in the general elections, was suffocated by local leaders. As the local leaders insisted on settlement of pending bills, he ended abruptly and left for Bengaluru with his wife YS Bharati.
After five years, for the first time he decided to spend five days in his Pulivendula’s residence to meet people directly. As a result, many people started asking him about the pending bills related to the works done during the previous government. He became impatient and left on the third-day itself.
They asked Jagan that after the YSRCP government came to power, Telugu Desam faced difficulties in not giving bills to the leaders and now if they follow the same path, what will be their situation? In the financial year 2019-20 under Pulivendula Area Development Corporation (PADC), various development works worth Rs 963 crores have been undertaken.
Though most of those works were not useful to the people and public utility, they were assigned only to feed local party leaders. In most of these there are allegations that the bills were made without doing the work.
However, in the YSRCP government senior leaders were able to get payment for their bills using their clout at CMO, village and mandal level leaders failed to get payment. As a result, most of their bills are pending.
Local TDP leaders have been demanding a probe into irregularities in the payment of bills to key YCP leaders. As a result, the government kept PADC OSD Anil Kumar Reddy in waiting without relieving him from duties. This has been creating panic among local YCP leaders.
They were discontent that YS Jagan remained silent when they explained their fears to him and failed to give them any assurance. Several women councilors of Pulivendula Municipal Corporation approached Jagan’s wife Bharati. Her efforts to calm them failed. As many as 10 councillors threatened that they will resign from the party if their pending bills are not settled.
Bills up to Rs. 230 crores are already pending and another Rs 100 crore bills are to be uploaded. They questioned YS Jagan that why their bills were not paid, but only bills former minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy for Kaletiwagu project and contractor of Pulivendula Medical College construction?
