Chandranna Back To Cheap Promises

Infamous for his unfulfilled promises, Chandrababu Naidu made yet another serious promise with elections round the corner: to provide SC status to converted Christians and declare December 24 as an optional holiday.

He made these promises while attending the Christmas Day celebrations organised by the State government and urged the Christian community to stand with the TDP in the forthcoming elections.

“We saw Mother Teresa, how she served society. Our government has spent Rs 250 crores for Christians in these four years.

We will fight for giving the SC status to converted Christians and till then we will support you,” said Naidu and added, “For Christian Bhavan, we gave two acres land and Rs 10 crores. Now, we are allotting additional six crores as per your appeals. We will provide full economic support for the construction of churches even without contribution.

We will give 24 December as an optional holiday. We will spend Rs 100 crores to develop burial grounds for Christians.

Despite Centre's non-cooperation, we are providing many welfare schemes. For Christian girls' marriage, we are giving Rs 50,000. I assure you we will support all the poor people.”

One can already see the mayhem created in Andhra Pradesh by his promise of providing reservation to the Kapus.

Making such promises merely for retaining power and then not acting on them can have serious, violent repercussions in future as witnessed in the form of the train-burning incident at Tuni.

Besides, SC reservation is given to depressed classes in the Hindu community. It has religion as it’s basis.

Once a person chooses to give up his religion, how then can he lay claim to the benefits which accrue because of being denied certain privileges in the past while being part of that religion?

And who on earth told Naidu that it is only Christian girls who need financial assistance for marriage?

Such stupid promises might be believed by the gullible people of Telangana where KCR specializes in such things. Aping KCR’s stupidity in Andhra Pradesh might boomerang as it should.