TDP Allegations On Loan Waiver False: YSRCP

Taking strong objection to the allegations of TDP minister Devineni Umamaheshwara Rao against Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on the loan waiver issue, the YSR Congress Party said that the TDP government was only trying to sidetrack the main issue, and dared the State to order an inquiry to prove the charges.

"In a bid to sidestep the demand for waiver of loans, the TDP government has been resorting to a counterattack on the main opposition party, and we demand that the State order a probe by any agency into the allegations levelled against Y S Jaganmohan Reddy that he has been giving false reports on the issue," party senior leader Parthasarathi told reporters on Sunday.

The TDP government was unable to keep up its poll promise, which was also the commitment in the first file that Chandrababu Naidu signed as after assuming office, and so it was going on the offensive by levelling baseless allegations that Jagan had been giving false reports on the loan waiver issue, he alleged.

"We challenge the TDP to order an inquiry, and if proved wrong the State irrigation minister Devineni Umamaheshwara Rao, who levelled the charges, should quit," he said, adding that such tactics would not go down well with the people.

Rescheduling of loans was not equivalent to waiver of loans, and the first file that Chandrababu Naidu had signed was that of waiving all agricultural and DWACRA loans, he pointed out. The YSR Congress had been raising objection to a rescheduling instead of a full waiver, and the TDP leaders were distorting this contention, and were interpreting it to suit their attempts to escape from the election promise, he fumed.

The TDP was trying to cover up its reneging by using the RBI guidelines as an excuse, he said, and asked why Chandrababu Naidu was not mounting pressure on the Centre to bail him out in fulfilling his poll promise and saving the farmers.

He also condemned the acts of the "Chandra dandu" trying to burn effigies of Jagan in the Anantapur district, and asserted that questioning the TDP government on the waiver of loans was neither wrong nor undemocratic. (INN)