Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila will lead a ‘Chalo Secretariat’ protest on February 22 “to demand justice for the unemployed youth and the student community in the State”, said Congress Working Committee member and former APCC president Gidugu Rudra Raju.
Addressing a press conference at Andhra Ratna Bhavan on February 20, Mr. Rudra Raju accused Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of betraying the unemployed youth in the State by not keeping his poll promise of releasing a job calendar every year and filling all vacant posts through Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission if voted to power.
He said the Congress would organise a massive public meeting in Anantapur on February 26, which will be addressed by All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge and AICC in-charge for Andhra Pradesh, Manickam Tagore. The meeting will highlight the failures of the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in achieving Special Category Status (SCS) and other promises made to the State in the A.P. Reorganisation Act, 2014, he said. Thereafter, the party would organise public meetings beginning in Visakhapatnam to protest against privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, then in Guntur region in support of the demand that Amaravati be retained as the capital of the State, and later in Jangareddygudem to highlight the neglect of the crucial Polavaram and other irrigation projects.
