Jogi Challenges Atchannaidu for Open Debate on Development
Deccan ChronicleVijayawada: In a strong retort to Telugu Desam state president K. Atchannaidu’s challenge for an open debate on development, housing minister Jogi Ramesh asked him to have this done in Kuppam, Tekkali, or another place. Jagan Mohan Reddy for implementing a series of welfare schemes and developmental works, the minister challenged the TD leaders to come with them to ask 44 lakh mothers about the Amma Vodi scheme, 64 lakh aged persons about social security pension, 80 lakh women and farmers on Aasara and Rythu Bharosa and 26 lakh persons about Cheyutha. In a separate development, water resources minister Ambati Rambabu lashed out at Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan for targeting Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and other YSRC leaders. The housing minister also flayed Kanna Lakshminarayana and asked him to accept three challenges, by saying who killed Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga, who tried to kill him and whether he would sail with Naidu or switch his loyalty to some other party.