Naidu’s speech at Collectors’ meet flayed

Taking strong objection to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s address to the District Collectors and SPs meet, YSR Congress has said he has been inciting the official machinery to extend all help to his party cadre and the accent was more on making TDP members part of development process and not the people as a whole.

“Time and again Chandrababu Naidu has strongly hinted to the district administration at favouring TDP cadre in implementing all the welfare schemes and he was speaking like the President of TDP and not as Chief Minister of the State,” party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters here on Thursday.

His statement that they have to go to the people and the cadre should be made part of the development process shows his shallow attitude which is bereft of providing welfare measures to all sections of the society cutting across the party lines.

“This is stark nepotism and a person who was sworn-in to the highest office in the State to serve the people without any prejudice or favour has broken the oath with such brazen talk at the conference of the highest officials of the districts.

When YSR took over as Chief Minister, he implemented the schemes above party lines and every person, irrespective of the party affiliation, had benefited out of the welfare schemes. The spirit of welfare activity is lost with Naidu taking sides at the Collectors’ Conference by openly suggesting that they have to win seats next time and this should be kept in mind while implementing welfare schemes, she said.

“We have seen the gross misuse of official machinery during the Mayor and ZPTC Chairperson elections and such undemocratic statements would encourage discrimination at all levels which is not good for administration.”

His speech was like rubbing TDP agenda on the officials leaving the decorum of governance to winds. It is not political governance but the administration is run on a set or norms which cannot be overlooked and if such unsavory message comes from the top level, it will be in a bad taste. It turns worse when the message percolated to lower rung, she added.