YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy accused chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of resorting to brazen “credit-chori” by shamelessly claiming credit for housing works that were initiated, sanctioned and largely executed under the YSRCP.
Taking to social media, Jagan said that in the last 18 months Chandrababu Naidu’s administration did not acquire a single square yard for the poor, did not grant even one cent of house site, did not sanction a single house, and did not spend a paisa on such housing.
“Yet, he is now loudly claiming that his government has built all the houses,” the YSRCP chief said and called this a disgraceful attempt to convert others’ labour into his own glory and said a person who steals the credit for others’ hard work is no leader but a mere playwright.
Jagan pointed out that of the 300,092 houses Chandrababu Naidu boasts about, not one house-pattadar (site title) was issued by the present government and not one house was sanctioned by them.
He clarified that 140,010 houses were at the finishing stage under YSRCP rule, 87,380 houses had been raised to slab level under YSRCP govt, and 66,845 houses were under construction during the YSRCP tenure.
He reminded the public that on October 12, 2023, the YSRCP government created history by holding 743,396 house-warming ceremonies in a single day.
Jagan noted that the YSRCP government issued 31.19 lakh house site pattas to poor women across 71,800 acres, sanctioned 21.75 lakh houses, and, despite the disruption of the COVID pandemic, completed over 9 lakh houses.
“Instead of building on this legacy, the present government has embarked on a programme to lock up the remaining vacant plots, the very lands meant for housing the poor and is using yellow media to steal the credit for YSRCP’s achievements,” he critcised.
Jagan concluded that claiming other people’s ideas and hard work, trying to grab the house sites allotted to the poor, and shamelessly publicising those lies is the essence of Chandrababu Naidu’s “credit-chor”, a deplorable tactic that cannot stand unchallenged.
