VIJAYAWADA: Telugu Desam Party chief N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday demanded that the YSR Congress government explain to people of Andhra Pradesh whether the central government has given any concrete assurance about releasing funds necessary for immediate completion of the state’s lifeline Polavaram irrigation project.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s central office here after walking out from the assembly over the Polavaram project, Naidu wondered on what basis the YSRC government could install a 100-ft statue of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy at the project site when it was being constructed with 100 per cent funds from the central government.
He accused Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan or being reckless in proposing to spend over Rs. 200 crore on the 100-feet statue of YSR. He alleged that the CM was only interested in the statue but not the actual project that has the potential to serve the long-term interests of the entire state.
The former chief minister…