The members of the YSRCP often propagate widely and proudly that Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy always keeps his word, and makes sure that whatever he says is done by when he promises to get it done. When he first became the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Jagan promised that the construction of the Polavaram project would be completed by June 2021. The intensity with which he said it is still fresh in the minds of people, so much so that the video is currently trending on social media platforms.
Jagan’s body language while promising to get Polavaram done by June 2021 is so fierce that it indirectly asks people to question him if he fails to live up to his words. That was the conviction he had in his tone. June 2021 has now come, and the construction of the Polavaram project hasn’t advanced by even 2% in the last two years.
The state government changed the contractor in the name of saving thousands of crores through reverse tendering. The state government is also in a helpless position right now, given the kind of decisions the Centre took on Polavaram. With that, the government is neither able to ask for money nor is able to complete the project. Given that Polavaram is considered to be the lifeline of Andhra Pradesh, one would expect the state government to behave towards it with much more integrity.
With netizens trolling Jagan and YSRCP on social media, over the CM not being able to complete the construction of Polavaram, it is to be seen how the party will tackle the public.