PNS|Eluru
Compensation to the Chintalapudi project displaced will be paid if the TDP is voted to power, TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh promised the project displaced people.
The Chintalapudi lift irrigation project displaced from Pragadavaram met Lokesh at Velagapalli in Chintalapudi Assembly segment of the combined West Godavari district on Monday and complained that though they had sacrificed their lands for the lift irrigation scheme, the promised amount of Rs 30 lakh per acre has not been paid yet. As these lands are under the prohibited category they are neither able to mortgage their lands nor sell them, the farmers informed Lokesh.
Moved at their plight, Nara Lokesh said that Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy has cheated all sections of people. Lokesh promised to pay the compensation and complete the project once the TDP is voted to power again.
On the occasion of the release of a Rs 100 coin by the President, Draupadi Murmu, to commemorate the legendary Telugu actor and former chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, the late Mr N T Rama Rao, on the occasion of his birth centenary, Nara Lokesh said that it is the respect to the whole Telugu community. “I feel proud as a Telugu person, as a leader of the TDP, and as grandson of the great personality, the Late NT Rama Rao,” he said, adding that this is a proud moment for him and the ardent fans of the late NTR. “I express my joy over the launch of this commemorative coin,” Lokesh stated.
In an interaction with palm oil farmers at Chintalapudi, Lokesh said that it was the Late NT Rama Rao, who introduced the palm oil plantation to the people of the State. Later, the TDP supremo, Chandrababu Naidu, as the chief minister of the State, came to the rescue of the palm oil farmers by paying the Minimum Support Price when the prices had fallen, he added.
Lokesh promised to formulate a policy for the palm oil farmers once the TDP is in power again. Expressing confidence that the TDP is forming the coming government, Nara Lokesh said that a party that the TDP supports will be in power at the Centre too.
