AP moving towards economic emergency, alleges TDP

Vijayawada Telugu Desam Party senior leader K. Pattabhi Ram on Friday said that Andhra Pradesh is fast moving towards economic emergency.

Addressing media persons at the party office here, he alleged that the economic indiscipline has reached its peak and demanded that a white paper be published on the economic condition of the State.

The TDP is ready for an open debate on this if the State Government publishes a white paper on the revenue, expenditure and other details , he added.

The national and even the global media is publishing reports on the grave economic condition of the State but the ruling dispensation is only blaming and branding it as yellow media, he said. Expressing serious concern over the disturbing financial crisis the State is passing through, Pattabhi said that the total debts of Andhra Pradesh is far more than any other State in the country.

But Advisor to the Government Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy and an IAS officer Duvvuri Krishna are only comparing the financial condition with that of the Centre. How the senior IAS officer can claim that the economic discipline of the State is far better than the Centre, he said and asked whether he is a civil servant or a leader of the YSRCP.