YSR Congress party on Thursday suspected a big scam in the proposal to establish Anna NTR canteens by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and said it was aimed at making big money at the cost of poor people.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, YSRC MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy said Naidu had been paying exorbitant rates to the canteens and had released GO no 121 to that effect. It will be a money-spinner to Naidu and his son Lokesh, he said.
“Though he has promised Anna Canteens before the last elections, the chief minister seems to be in a hurry in starting them only now as he had seen an opportunity of making money by releasing Rs 385 cores and building it in three parts to facilitate his coterie,” he alleged.
The MLA said despite land coming free of cost along with sand and cement on subsidized rates, the chief minister had been paying Rs 4,800 per square feet which showed the level of corruption.
He warned that the scheme was to implicate the municipal administration minister P Naryana in it, if things went wrong.
Though Naidu did not fulfill his poll promise, the MLA had started Rajanna Canteen and had been successfully running it.
“Naidu is trying to invoke NTR as people are vexed with TDP term,” he said.
