YS Jagan assures to provide funds for temples, mosques and churches

Kurnool, Nov 26: The Andhra Pradesh Opposition leader YS. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday promised a monthly honorarium of Rs. 10,000 to masjid imams and assured Rs. 15,000 a month for maintenance of all the temples, mosques and churches.

Addressing Muslim minorities in an "Atmeeya Sadassu" at Putlur in Pathikonda constituency in Kurnool district, Mr. Jagan said his father YS. Rajasekhara Reddy had extended 4% reservation to Muslims, but Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu ditched them after promising 8%.

Charging the Chandrababu Naidu government with misusing Central funds released for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and that corruption had reached alarming proportions, Mr. Jagan asked "if the people need such a Chief Minister" who lost credibility.

The government had been using the NREGS funds for work done by machines and ignoring the workforce against the spirit of the Central scheme, he said interacting with people in his Paja Sankalpa Yatra.

He reiterated his navaratna schemes, promised to waive loans of women self-help groups in four phases besides giving top priority to housing.

The Amma Vodi scheme would ensure that two children in every poor man's family were sent to school and Rs. 15,000 would be credited to their mother’s account directly.