The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has set up an eight-member Rythu Parirakshana Committee to help Amaravati farmers get their grievances redressed by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA).
The committee includes former ministers Perni Venkataramaiah and Ambati Rambabu and former MP Nandigam Suresh, who have been critics of the Amaravati greenfield capital project; MLCs Lella Appi Reddy and Mondithoka Arun Kumar; and Devineni Avinash, Dontireddy Vema Reddy and Vanama Bala Vajra Babu.
A separate four-member legal cell, headed by former advocate-general Ponnavolu Sudhakar Reddy, has been formed to fight court cases for the farmers in the capital region. Its other members are M. Manohar Reddy, J. Sudarshan Reddy and K. Srinivas.
The committee comes amid the YSRCP’s continued charge that the TDP government of 2014-19 had reneged on its commitments to the Amaravati farmers, and that they continued to face injustice even after the TDP-BJP-Jana Sena alliance came to power. It also follows YSRCP chief Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s proposal to develop the Machilipatnam-Vijayawada-Guntur region as the capital, even as work on the Amaravati capital continues.
Meanwhile, the YSRCP formed a five-member DSC Porata Committee to take up alleged irregularities in the DSC 2025 (teacher recruitment) examinations.
It comprises MLCs Lella Appi Reddy, Parvathareddy Chandrasekhar Reddy and T. Kalpa Latha, and YSRCP student wing leaders Panuganti Chaitanya and A. Ravi Chandra.
They will be supported by a legal cell comprising Ponnavolu Sudhakar Reddy, M. Manohar Reddy, J. Sudarshan Reddy and S. G. V. S. Kishore.
The committee was formed after DSC-2025 candidates met Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday (June 3, 2026), when he demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged irregularities.
Published - June 05, 2026 11:31 am IST
Source: The Hindu - India News
