Nagam Not Quitting BJP, Threatens Stir Over OU Land

Calling out on media reports that he was planning to leave the BJP, former minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy today made it clear that he would continue in the saffron party.

Speaking to the media on Monday, the former minister said that the "stories" of his quitting the BJP were baseless and mischievous.

He also warned that he would launch an agitation if the TRS government attempted to take over land belonging to Osmania University.

Criticising the style of functioning of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Nagam said that the state government should help the farmers by completing all the pending irrigation projects on a war footing. Announcing that he would launch a protest program on May 21 over the inordinate delay in several irrigation projects, the BJP leader said he would bring pressure on the TRS government over the issue. While irrigation projects were going on expeditiously in Andhra Pradesh, they were progressing at a snail's pace in Telangana, he lamented. If the TRS government declared affected mandals as drought hit, the Centre would immediately grant funds to meet the needs of farmers in those mandals, he added.

The former minister alleged that the ministers in the KCR government were resorting to corrupt practices and remained processional deities. The Chief Minister was personally clearing even petty works worth Rs 100 and not giving any financial powers to his colleagues, he added. (NSS)