The YSR Congress government in Andhra Pradesh will be spending about ₹100 crore on thousands of mandal-level sports matches, mostly friendly, and will be giving cash prizes worth over ₹10 crore according to a top official in the government.
The novel public programme, as part of one of the poll strategies, is reportedly designed by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and its strategic advisory body, the Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC), to connect to the vote bank ahead of the poll year.
For the record, the YSRCP government is riding high on its welfare agenda and has nine schemes, christened as Navaratnalu, through which direct benefit transfer (DBT) is facilitated to farmers, women, students, and other needy sections of the society.
