TDP Polit Bureau member Somireddi Chandramohan Reddy has alleged that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been repeating and uttering the same untruths everywhere about housing sites for the poor.
In a release here on Friday, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy said that the TDP government had distributed two cents of land each to the homeless, while Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy reduced it to one cent. Besides the funds allocated by the Centre for the construction of houses to the beneficiaries, the TDP government headed N. Chandrababu Naidu had released an additional ₹1 lakh. In comparison, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy did not bother to release any funds from the State, pushing the beneficiaries into a debt trap, the TDP leader alleged.
A total of 2.6 lakh TIDCO houses were built during the TDP term, while Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy did not distribute these housing units to the beneficiaries. In the name of distribution of deeds, the Chief Minister was deceiving the poor as elections were fast approaching, he alleged.
About 12 lakh housing units had been constructed and distributed to the poor in the five-year TDP rule, but Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who came to power by making a false promise of building 25 lakh houses, did not fulfil it, he said.
