Wikileaks : CORRUPTION PLAGUES ANDHRA PRADESH
Title : CORRUPTION PLAGUES ANDHRA PRADESH'S BIG TICKET SPENDING
PROGRAMS
This US diplomatic cable for internal circulation was created by Chennai embassy on 2007-10-22 and was released by wiikileaks on 2011-08-30
Here is the summary of the cable as taken from the original source .
Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress party has been
spending billions of dollars on social programs targeted at the
"common man." The spending programs, though politically popular,
have led to much talk that Chief Minister YSR Reddy's government is
engaged in corruption beyond the norm for India. Opposition leader
Chandrababu Naidu used the high-profile September 9 collapse of an
under-construction overpass in downtown Hyderabad to argue that
corruption is so rampant in the Congress government that it is
endangering the state's citizens. Complaints of corruption seem
unlikely to give the opposition much traction against the ruling
Congress party, however.
Sources
India Today :
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's populist programmes might have reaped him immense political benefits, but these were beset with massive corruption, a leaked US diplomatic cable has revealed
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ysr-r
YSR graft exceeded even Indian average http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's populist programmes might have reaped him immense political benefits, but these were beset with massive corruption, a leaked US diplomatic cable has revealed
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ysr-r
YSR graft exceeded even Indian average http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.
