VIJAYAWADA: An enraged Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday slammed the Opposition and a section of the media in the Legislative Assembly for “spreading lies” and charged that the Telugu Desam government had destroyed cooperative dairies in order to promote Heritage. He took exception to the TD terming Amul as a corporate company.
The Chief Minister said that the share value of Heritage increased whenever TD president N. Chandrababu Naidu was in power and dropped when he lost, giving rise to suspicion. Showing statistics, he stated that Naidu was sending TD members to the podium to create chaos in the House in order to throttle the voice of the government.
Jagan Mohan Reddy said Amul is a co-operative society, whose owners were farmers and it was ranked eighth best in the world. He said, “looking at Heritage share price according to the National Stock Exchange (NSE) index since 1999, when Naidu was in power, its share price was `2.89 on January 1, 1999,…