Don’t Preach What Isn’t Practiced, YSRCP Tells Chandrababu 

Terming the proposed visit of Chandrababu Naidu to LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie as ironic and paradoxical, the YSR Congress Party has said that nowhere in the country, IAS officers are reduced to subordinates to party functionaries in the name of Janmabhoomi Committees and wings of Collectors as is being done in Andhra Pradesh.

Speaking to reporters here on Monday party MP V Varaprasad Rao said Chandrababu Naidu has been showing scant respect to IAS officers back home with the Janmabhoomi Committee superseding the powers of Collectors and other officials. The District Collectors do not have any say in Andhra Pradesh. The man responsible for this sorry state of affairs addressing IAS trainees is ridiculous, he said.

Varaprasad Rao, a former IAS officer who worked with Tamil Nadu CMs J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi, said that Chandrababu Naidu has no moral right to preach when he is not practicing.

Under Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) has become an extra-constitutional entity and secretaries and even the Chief Secretary have no say in any major issue. The Collector's office is also being misused by Chandrababu Naidu government as was witnessed in the case of accident at Nandigama. The blatant deviation was seen during Nellore ZP Chairman polls where a ruling Party MLA had snatched the mike from the hands of the returning officer and the District Collector and the issue was buried by the state without any action against the TDP legislator, he said.

Even in the case of land-pooling, Chandrababu Naidu had brought in Swiss Challenge method, which drew a flak and was dubbed as faulty by many, to benefit favoured few and the state administration was used harass the farmers who were not willing to part with their lands.

'With such a track record, I wonder what Chandrababu Naidu is going to preach to the IAS trainees at the Academy where the trainees are exhorted to work beyond party lines,' he said.