Chandrababu promises diesel in subsidy for fishermen

The Telugu Desham Party president Nara Chandrababu has promised to supply diesel at 50 per cent subsidy to fishermen if his government is voted back to power.

Addressing a public meeting at Akkivaram and Bhogapuram on Friday afternoon, Chandrababu Naidu assumed that Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had proposed the coastal corridor from Tada to Ichchapuram to receive kickbacks from allotment of about 1.50 lakh acres to capitalists. If it was materialised, some 60,000 to 70,000 fishermen would be displaced along the coast, he said.

He said that Ministers and MLAs became land grabbers, particularly of the poor. With the number of scams surfacing each day, people in the State were forced to hang their heads in shame, he observed.

Chandrababu Naidu guaranteed free rice, enhancement of old age pensions, free supply of LPG connections and gas at 50 per cent subsidy. The response to his meetings was good.