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MP sore with Jagan

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He’s acting like extra constitutional authority: Harsha Kumar

Huge sums spent by rice millers on Jagan road show undesirable
Pompous welcome, publicity blitzkrieg has sent wrong signals

KAKINADA: Congress MP G.V. Harsha Kumar on Saturday said that Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, was acting like an extra constitutional authority who would be of little use to the party in the Assembly elections, unlike his father.

The huge money spent by rice millers on his recent road show in Kakinada was undesirable, he said.

Speaking to media persons here, Mr. Kumar said the pompous welcome accorded to Jagan in Kakinada and the publicity blitzkrieg that followed sent wrong signals to the people.

‘Busy persons’

Asked why he was not personally submitting people’s representations to the Chief Minister but writing open letters, Mr. Kumar said both the Chief Minister and he were busy persons.

“I am not bound to call on the Chief Minister as I don’t work under him. Our leader is Sonia Gandhi,” he said.

Sand auctions

The Amalapuram MP suggested to the State government to do away with the existing system of auctioning sand and to allow its free supply so as to bring down the cost of sand component in major irrigation projects, Indiramma houses and other schemes. This would eliminate middlemen and prevent contractors’ syndicates.

Kerala model

Mr. Kumar said he studied how the system of free supply of sand was yielding higher revenues in Kerala and felt that the State government could replicate it for the benefit of the people at large.

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