YSRCP to undertake ‘padayatra’ against steel plant privatisation

Amaravati, Feb 16 : In the face of the protests by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) against the privatisation of the Vizag Steel Plant, the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders have decided to undertake a ‘padayatra’ for the plant on Saturday.
“At 8:30 a.m. on February 20, we will undertake a padayatra from Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at GVMC, covering all the constituencies (in Visakhapatnam) from south, east, west, north and Gajuwaka to protect the prospects of the steel plant,” said senior YSRCP leader and Rajya Sabha MP V. Vijayasai Reddy.
He said this padayatra will be called ‘steel plant parirakshana porata yatra’, which will cover a distance of 23-25 km.
Reddy said the padayatra will terminate at the steel plant to voice the ruling party’s protest against the Central government’s privatisation plan. The MP said the padyatra will be conducted in such a fashion that it will be heard in Delhi.
“YSRCP is ready to take up any programme required to oppose the steel plant’s privatisation without compromising,” he said, attacking TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu.
He claimed that the YSRCP leaders do not enact dramas like Naidu, and said that YSRCP supremo Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy speaks truth as it is.