*Naidu is a Teacher to Goebbels: YS Jagan*
Tadepalli, Dec 4:
YSRCP President and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, accusing him of turning into a “teacher to Goebbels” in the art of lies and propaganda, and using a compliant “yellow media gang” to cover up the coalition government’s failures in agriculture, education, health, employment, TTD affairs, Amaravati, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and liquor policy. Addressing a detailed press conference at the YSRCP central office in Tadepalli, YS Jagan said while Chandrababu and his media machinery are busy manufacturing narratives, he would continue to “show the other side of the coin” with facts and evidence to educate the people.
*From Festival to Disaster in Agriculture*
YS Jagan said agriculture, which was a “festival” under YSRCP, has been turned into a “curse” under Chandrababu’s coalition rule. He pointed out that:
• In just 18–19 months, the State has faced 17 natural calamities, but not a single instalment of input subsidy has been paid. Around ₹1,100 crore of input subsidy remains pending.
• In the recent Montha cyclone, damage was shown on only 4 lakh acres after cutting down from an estimated 15 lakh acres, and even that limited area did not receive a single rupee of compensation.
• The free crop insurance that YSRCP implemented—under which about ₹7,800 crore was paid—has effectively been scrapped. Out of 84 lakh farmers, only 19 lakh now have insurance; the rest have been abandoned.
• No crop is getting remunerative prices. For paddy, a 75-kg bag that should fetch ₹1,776 MSP is being bought by middlemen at ₹1,200–₹1,300, he said, and banana is selling at just 50 paise per kg, pushing farmers into despair.
• Under YSRCP, the government spent about ₹7,455 crore on market intervention and even ran special banana and chilli export trains to Delhi, Mumbai, Ghaziabad and Lucknow, increasing exports from 23,000 tonnes to 3 lakh tonnes. Today, he said, farmers see no such support—only slogans like “Rythannaa Meekosam” while leaders “don’t even dare go near farmers for fear of being chased away.”
*Super Six “Super Fraud” and Broken Promises*
Calling Chandrababu “a teacher to Goebbels in propaganda,” YS Jagan ripped apart the ‘Super Six/Super Seven’ claims:
• Unemployment allowance of ₹3,000 per month for two years (₹72,000) has not materialised.
• “Aadabidda Nidhi” of ₹1,500 per month (₹36,000 in two years) for every girl turning 18 remains unimplemented.
• Pensions from 50 years for BCs, SCs, STs and minorities at ₹4,000 per month (₹96,000 over two years) have not been delivered.
• Under “Annadata Sukhibhava”, farmers were promised ₹20,000 per year (₹40,000 for two years); only ₹10,000 was paid, he said, calling it a clear betrayal.
• “Amma Odi” was renamed and diluted: instead of ₹30,000 over two years per child, many received only ₹8,000–₹10,000, and lakhs were arbitrarily excluded.
• Three free gas cylinders per year was the promise; over two years it should be six, “but even three cylinders have not reached everyone,” he said.
• Free bus travel was hyped as unlimited, but quietly restricted “to some buses and some sections.”
“If any private chit fund or finance company cheated people like this, they would be in jail under cheating cases,” YS Jagan remarked, adding that because it is Chandrababu and his ecosystem, “no yellow media outlet writes, shows or questions.”
*Education in Chaos, Students Paying With Their Lives*
YS Jagan said the education sector has been pushed into crisis:
• Fee Reimbursement: Eight quarters of Jagananna Vidya Deevena are pending. Each quarter costs ~₹700 crore; out of ₹5,600 crore, only ₹700 crore has been paid, leaving ₹4,900 crore dues.
• Jagananna Vasathi Deevena: Hostel and mess support of ₹1,100 crore per year has not been paid for two years, leaving ₹2,200 crore pending. Together, ₹7,100 crore in student-related dues are hanging, forcing parents into debt and students to drop out.
• Government schools have deteriorated; children are carrying lunch from home as midday meals have lost quality, Nadu–Nedu reforms have stalled, English-medium and TOEFL-based reforms have been rolled back, and tabs for class 8 students have stopped.
• In 18–19 months of Chandrababu’s rule, 29 students have died in government and welfare hostels due to contaminated food and water, and hundreds more have landed in hospitals with food poisoning and waterborne diseases.
“These are not stray incidents—they are the tragic indicators of how little this government cares for poor children,” he said.
*Aarogyasri Killed, Government Hospitals Strangled*
Calling it a “mysterious disease that has struck this government,” YS Jagan said:
• Aarogyasri has been virtually killed by non-payment of dues, leading to network hospitals suspending services.
• The scheme requires about ₹300 crore per month; for 18 months, ₹5,400 crore should have been paid, but only ₹1,800 crore has been released, leaving ₹3,600 crore in arrears.
• 104 and 108 emergency services have been handed to a firm with less than ₹5 crore net worth, which he called a scandalous decision.
• “Instead of strengthening public health, they trumpet gimmicks like ‘Sanjeevani’ while pushing poor patients to the brink,” he said.
*Medical Colleges Privatisation: Public Money, Private Profits*
On the new government medical colleges, YS Jagan alleged a major scam:
• Under the coalition’s policy, newly built government medical colleges and teaching hospitals are handed to private players, yet the government continues to pay salaries of the staff for two years.
• For a 550-bed teaching hospital, salaries alone cost around ₹5–6 crore per month, or ₹60–70 crore per year; over two years, ₹120–140 crore per institution is borne by the State while “ownership and profits” go to private operators.
• “Land is government, buildings are government, staff are government, salaries are government—but the owner is private. Profits are private, burden is on the government and people,” he said.
He recalled that YSRCP has launched a one crore signatures movement against medical college privatisation. The signatures collected from all 175 constituencies will be displayed in Assembly segments, moved to districts, and finally submitted to the Governor on December 16, followed by a petition in the High Court.
*Employees Cheated, ₹31,000 Crore Dues Piled Up*
On government employees’ issues, YS Jagan said:
• Five DAs are due; only one DA has been sanctioned, that too in instalments, with a strange condition that DA arrears will be paid only after retirement.
• The infamous GO 60, with “draconian” clauses 11 and 12, was brought and then withdrawn under pressure, but the spirit of denial continues.
• Promised “better PRC” has not materialised; even a PRC Chairman has not been appointed to avoid implementing pay hikes.
• There is no IR, no OPS, and even the Guaranteed Pension Scheme (GPS) introduced by YSRCP has been invalidated.
• PRC arrears, pending DAs, GPF, APGLI, medical reimbursements and surrender leave dues together amount to about ₹31,000 crore.
• Under YSRCP, APCOS staff were paid on the 1st of every month; now, he said, their numbers are being cut and wages are paid once in two–three months. Guest lecturers have allegedly not been paid for eight months.
*Double Standards on Visakhapatnam Steel Plant*
On Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), YS Jagan said Chandrababu’s double standards stand exposed:
• YSRCP, he said, stopped privatisation during its five-year term, passed a resolution in the Assembly against disinvestment and formally requested captive iron ore mines for VSP.
• Employee expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure is 11.2% both in RINL-VSP and SAIL, he pointed out, quoting 2023–24 annual reports. The key difference is that SAIL has captive mines, producing about 34.34 million tonnes of iron ore and even selling 1.16 million tonnes in the open market, keeping iron ore cost at 9.8% of total, compared to 18.6% for VSP.
• “Instead of demanding captive mines for a government sector plant like VSP, Chandrababu’s MPs are lobbying for captive mines for a private Mittal plant,” he alleged.
• Before elections, Chandrababu raised slogans with workers promising to save VSP; now he questions why salaries should be paid if workers do not perform and threatens action under PD Act, YS Jagan said.
*Red Book Raj: False Cases, Political Vendetta*
YS Jagan described the “Red Book constitution” as the operating manual of the coalition government—using police and institutions to crush dissent:
• False and exaggerated cases are allegedly being foisted on YSRCP leaders, student leaders, retired officials, journalists, actors and social media activists, while real culprits in liquor and other rackets are spared.
• He cited examples like former minister Jogi Ramesh being arrested in a spurious liquor case while the alleged main accused and their relatives remain untouched; Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy and his brother being booked in a murder case even though the district SP publicly stated that both the killers and victims belonged to rival TDP factions; and a student leader Kondareddy being arrested in a ganja case despite CCTV and GPS evidence contradicting the FIR version.
• In the so-called liquor scam, YS Jagan said, the government is trying to erase Chandrababu’s own liquor case by manufacturing a new narrative and planting cash, while TDP’s own belt shops, permit rooms and distillery-linked mafia run the real liquor racket on the ground.
*Dragging God into Politics: TTD Laddu and Parakamani*
YS Jagan accused Chandrababu of dragging even Lord Venkateswara into dirty politics:
• He recalled Chandrababu’s statement that animal fat-mixed ghee was used in Tirupati laddus and that devotees had consumed them, and asked: “Do you have any evidence that the so-called adulterated ghee tankers entered the prasadam process?”
• He detailed the robust two-stage quality protocol in TTD—NABL certification and tests in TTD’s own lab—under which 15 tankers were rejected during Chandrababu’s previous term and 18 during YSRCP rule, proving that the system itself is strong.
• Even TTD’s own EO, under Chandrababu’s government, clarified on national media that four suspect tankers were rejected and sent back, he noted. If, as per SIT’s remand report, the same rejected tankers re-entered in August and were allegedly used in laddus, “who was CM then, who was EO, and why were they not arrested?” he asked.
• YS Jagan said YV Subba Reddy was the one who went to the Supreme Court seeking a fair probe and truth in TTD matters, yet he is being targeted with character assassinations, while facts like Bhole Baba dairy’s entry during TDP rule and large-scale TTD financial decisions under Chandrababu are brushed aside.
• On the Parakamani issue, he said a long-time clerk of the Jeeyer Mutt, involved in counting for decades, was caught stealing nine US dollars (about ₹72,000) only because YSRCP modernised the counting hall with a ₹23-crore high-tech facility. The family later surrendered properties worth around ₹14 crore to TTD through a full judicial process involving local courts and Lok Adalat.
• In contrast, he said, when ₹55,000 was stolen at Simhachalam this year, a temple employee and an outsourcing worker were caught, one was suspended and the other was let off on station bail, there was no attempt to seize properties, and no questions were asked of the TDP-linked Dharmakarta, Ashok Gajapathi Raju. “One standard for Subba Reddy and Karunakar Reddy, another for Ashok Gajapathi Raju—that is Chandrababu’s justice,” he said.
*Amaravati: From Global Capital Hype to Fresh Land Grab*
Turning to Amaravati, YS Jagan recalled:
• Between 2014–19, Chandrababu took 53,000 acres promising an “international capital” that would surpass Singapore, and a self-financing model.
• The DPR itself, he said, showed that ₹2 crore per acre would be needed just for basic infrastructure like roads, power, drains and water, implying about ₹1 lakh crore even before buildings.
• Today, he alleged, Chandrababu is again talking of fresh land pooling and expansion, even before justifying what was done with the original 53,000 acres, with his and his benamis’ land interests driving alignment and development choices.
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Chandrababu Is the Accused, Policeman and Prosecutor
Concluding, YS Jagan said Chandrababu is not only presiding over misgovernance but also “cleansing” his own corruption cases:
• He alleged that Chandrababu, currently out on bail, is violating bail conditions by pressuring officials who had filed complaints to withdraw their statements, getting the government to file petitions and having cases closed using the very institutions meant to prosecute him.
• Cases relating to the Skill Development scam, assigned lands in Amaravati, inner ring road alignment, sand and Fibrenet, and liquor policy are all being quietly diluted or withdrawn, he said, even though courts earlier found sufficient material to send Chandrababu to jail.
“In a democracy, we will fight through courts,” YS Jagan said in response to media questions. “Above all, God and the people are watching. One day, both will teach Chandrababu Naidu the lesson he deserves.”
