Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy promised on Sunday to weed out the forces trying to demean the popular Government through management of systems, such unethical individuals/ groups and safeguard the state.

After hoisting the National Flag on the occasion of AP Formation Day on Sunday at his Camp Office, Jagan alleged that a few individuals were relentlessly working to derail the Government. These individuals have become sleepless because people of their community lost power in the state and they are trying to stall the welfare and development in the state, said CM while appealing to people to safeguard the state from such forces. In his address with District Collectors and SPs via video conference CM YS Jagan said people with vested interest were unable to digest the defeat of forces that worked only for the benefit of a section of people.

He said that the neglect AP suffered in the last several decades left it under developed. It is astonishing to know that morethan one crore a acre of cultivable land is yet to get irrigation water even for one crop and morethan 32 lakh people are homeless in the state, he said. It was sad to recall that 33% of the state’s population was illiterate and 85% still below the poverty line, he added.

Morethan 90 lakh women joined self-help groups to make their families self-sustainable and they continue to struggle, he said. The Chief Minister however said that he was happy to share that the YSRCP Government could transform many systems for betterment in just 18 months after coming to power and taking administration closer to the people by setting up Village/ Ward Secretariats for every 2K population and one volunteer to extend services to each household, he said.