By SNV Sudhir
Visakhapatnam, Dec 19, 2012: All eyes are now on Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s proposed visit to Paderu in Vizag Agency which comes under his bête noire Union tribal affairs minister Kishore Chandra Deo’s Parliamentary constituency of Araku on Wednesday. Reddy is likely to spend the entire day, taking part in several programmes organised locally in Paderu as part of the 11th edition of Indiramma Baata.
It may be recalled that Deo earlier reportedly wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi calling Reddy “ineffective”, besides terming PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana a ‘mafia don’. This was after there was no response from the CMO to his orders, directing the state government to immediately cancel the MoUs it signed with ANRAK and Jindals on supply of bauxite proposed to be mined in Vizag Agency by APMDC.
Deo has directed for the cancellation of the MoUs, under the special powers vested with the Centre according to the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
While locals are training their guns to protest CM’s visit, followers of state tribal welfare minister P. Balaraju are trying their best to make the programme a success to avoid any embarrassment as this would be the first Indiramma Baata after the prestigious SC, ST Sub Plan Bill 2012 was passed in State Assembly. Incidentally, Paderu is the home constituency of Balaraju and he earlier said that the state government was ready to cancel the MoUs. But, the CM on Monday night told reporters that he is yet to study the file to take any decision.
Barring TD, all opposition parties including CPI, CPM, YSRC, BJP, BSP, AISF, Girijana Sangham are readying their cadre for Wednesday’s bandh against CM’s indecisiveness on cancelling the MoUs. They have planned to block roads leading to Paderu to stop people going to CM’s programme. Reddy would be interacting with beneficiaries of Recognition Of Forest Rights Act and participate in various development programmes at Paderu.
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