2 Emperor of Corruption Chandrababu Naidu The Emperor of Corruption Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu has achieved a record of sorts in corruption. Under his leadership, the state has become the capital of collusive corruption and is underperforming across the sectors. In the last twenty four months, the quantum of his corruption has overtaken the total corruption of his previous nine-year tenure put together. Kickbacks, bribes, shares, commissions…the name could differ, but corruption is open and ubiquitous in the state. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Government has unilaterally and without any obligation under the contract has granted escalations to the civil contractors with retrospective effect even in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts where the Contractor has undertaken not to claim escalation. While facilitating such escaltions to the contractors through GO MS No.22, the Chandrababu government is amassing huge amounts as kickbacks. Even though the Union Government has an obligation to take over and completely implement the Polavaram project, the TDP Government has implemented the ill-advised no storage, temporary project of Patti Seema at the cost of Rs. 1600 crore just to pocket Rs 500 crore as kick backs by giving the contract. The government gave the contract at 21.9% excess rate (to the Estimated Project Value) and in that 16.9% as bonus for completing work in the stipulated time period of one year. And worse, the bonus clause was not even a part of the contract when the tenders were called. Having accomplished that, the TDP Government is now trying to take over Polavaram project by substantially escalating the project cost only for pocketing kickbacks, even when the prices of Petrol, Diesel, Steel, Aluminium and Sand rates have come down, while cement rates have not gone up. Today, in Andhra Pradesh, there is nothing that can be done without a bribe and there is nothing that cannot be done with a bribe. Emperor of Corruption 3 From sand reaches to solar plants, tenders in Irrigation Department to Power Department, Chandrababu ensured that not a single process is unaffected by the corrupt government. For instance, his government has made the illicit sand mining a major source of income by almost all the TDP functionaries starting from MLAs to Ministers and Chief Minister running as a syndicate. This is running into thousands of crores of rupees. Chandrababu has focused on the legal plunder from the day one and corruption was made a systemic practice. The legal plunder of government has become an open phenomenon in the State. After acquiring the ill-gotten money, Chandrababu Naidu has brazenly started ‘Operation Akarsh’ whereby MLAs from our party are being poached on day to day basis using Carrot and Stick policy. If they join TDP, they are paid a minimum of Rs 20 to 30 crore, the lure of ministerial berths to our MLAs who got elected on our party B Form and symbol. Chandrababu Government has so for poached 12 of our MLAs out of our strength of 67 in total. Such blatant display of ill-gotten money is not being questioned while the “Anti Defection Law” what is part of our constitution is being mocked in broad day light and yet our democracy remains silent. The TDP is conveying a direct message to opposition MLAs- ‘If you are with us, there is heaven or else you are in hell’. So far, as many as 12 MLAs and one MLC have openly defected to TDP lured by money and power and what is worse is that the Chief Minister and his colleagues in cabinet are giving statements that they would welcome all the MLAs of the opposition with open arms while assuring them that they would not be disqualified. When it comes to Amaravati, the State Government, in the name of developing a world-class capital city, is doing a world-class real estate scandal worth Rs. 1 lakh crore. Chandrababu breached the oath of secrecy as he revealed the details of the actual location of the Capital city to the members of his coterie. This translates to "Insider trading". To bring down the value of the lands in the prospective Capital 4 Emperor of Corruption location Amaravati, the TDP government through its media friends propagated that the capital city was going to come up in other locations- Nuzvid or Nagarjuna university areas. Fooled by this propaganda, people flocked to these areas and the land value in Amaravati region came down overnight. Seizing the moment, Chandrababu cronies, his ministers, MLAs, MPs and leaders bought land in the Amaravati region at throwaway prices duping the local farmers. And later after his cronies have finished the purchases then the capital declaration came on December 28, 2014, paramounting "Insider trading" breaching "Oath of Secrecy". This scandal has been brought out by "Sakshi" daily with irrefutable proofs. In the name of land pooling, the government grabbed the fertile, irrigated, multi-crop lands of the farmers, while sparing lands belonging to his cronies. In return, the farmers were supposed to get paltry extent of residential and commercial plots in their own villages. Now, there is no clue as to when and where these plots would be given. Indeed, he did not take some lands as they belonged to his men and their benamis. The Chief Minister, however, did not spare those lands without a reason. The CM recieved quid pro quo benefits for his generosity. Chief Minister did not stop with this, he has "zoned" the entire two districts to create demand for his cronies and to favour his cronies. Lands belonging to his cronies were marked in real estate zones while others were in "Agri Zone-1" There is no end to such stories of open corruption by Chandrababu Naidu. Though experts are of the opinion that 5000-acre land is enough to build the new Capital, Chandrababu insists on gathering 34,000 acres for the city. He is taking the land from the farmers and handing them over to private players on settlement basis. Several proofs and GOs which demonstrate his corruption have appeared in mainstream media. They are being mentioned in our discussions in Assembly. However, the government is not ready to face any investigation. The Chief Minster made it clear that his government was not going to commission any probe whatsoever! Emperor of Corruption 5 Index Recent Scams List 8 Capital Robbery 9 Corruption in Irrigation Department 12 EPC out, Additional Payments in!! 14 Polavaram Project Costs Skyrocketed! 15 Patti Seema Project– Exclusively for Kickbacks 16 Benami bags Huge Contracts 17 “Additional Liquor!!” 18 Galeru-Nagari Project Escalated! 19 Mining Barytes Commissions 20 Imported Coal lasts long! 21 Solar Golmaal!! 22 These 10 companies deserve ‘additional incentives’! 23 Pushkaram Funds have gone Godavari Way! 24 Mantri has Every Right to Cheat!! 24 Exploitation of Sand Mafia 25 Thermal Projects of Favoritism 26 Huge Scam in Electricity Department 27 Balakrishna's Relative Is Always a ‘Worthy’ Man! 30 One hand proposes, another hand approves 31 4 Departments for Party Cadre 32 Water, Tree and Evergreen Favouritism 33 Central Funds Misappropriated 35 A Friend in Deed 36 Gift to Galla Family 37 Special Development Fund No More! 38 ‘Additional’ to Nellore Barrage 39 Boon to Vamsadhara Contractors 40 Chandranna’s Gift 40 Lokesh Deal with Millers 41 Kuppam Branch Canal Works only for Stooges 41 Day-light Robbery in Goddumarri 41 6 Emperor of Corruption Babu’s Extravagance Costs the State 42 Scams between 1995-2004 45 Scams list - 1995 to 2004 46 Details of Land Gifting 47 Corruption in the Sale of PSUs 48 Democracy in Danger 50 A World Class Scam or A World Class City? 56 The Daylight Robbery 58 The Devil in Detail 60 Capital Culprits 64 A World Class Scam 69 The Captured Capital 74 Nara Lokesh and his Benami Inc. 75 Sujana Chowdary’s Land Robbing 77 Murali Mohan - The Real Benami 78 Ravela… Traitor of Dalits 80 Rs. 295 Crore Dowry to Balakrishna’s Relative 81 Assigned Lands in Prathipati’s Account 82 Quid pro quo with Lingamaneni 83 One Bit, One Benami 87 Narayana.. Narayana 88 Rama... Rama… Krishna… Krishna 92 Payyavula Keshav Descended 93 Dhulipalla's Poramboke Lands 94 Kodela’s Son, the Rising Star of the Land! 96 Kommalapati… Perfectly Illegal! 98 Open Fraud and Deception… the Farmers’ Response 100 Lingamaneni Ramesh - A King of Encroachments 103 A Ravan in Every Lanka 107 Dhulipalla did not Stop 113 Share of Anjaneyulu is 4.69 acres! 114 Assigned Lands Alienated 115 Red Zone in the Name of Green Zone 121 Emperor of Corruption 7 Recent Scams of Chandrababu (In Rs. in Crores) Corruption in the name of Capital City 1,00,000 Corruption in the Irrigation Department 6,000 Gifts from Liquor Syndicate 5,100 Kickbacks in Power Projects 4000 Kickbacks from Sand Mafia 3,375 Polavaram Project Cost Escalation 3000 Incentives to Industrialists 2500 Water & Tree Scheme Distribution 1800 Benefit from abandoning EPC Method 1500 Fiber Optic grid contract to a benami 1400 Gains from ‘Wadawadalaa Chandranna’ Scheme 900 Wastage of Funds for Godavari Pushkarams 750 Bribes in Patti Seema Lift Irrigation Project 700 Corruption in AP GENCO Thermal Projects 670 Nomination works in Irrigation Department 500 Land at throwaway price to a Friend of Nara Lokesh 338 Gift to Balakrishna's Son-in-law 245 Benefit to Contractors in Vamsadhara Project 214 Kickbacks in Coal Imports 200 Lokesh Deal with Millers 200 Gains from Solar Tenders 155 Additional Payments in Galeru-Nagari and Avuku Projects 153 Kuppam Branch Canal Works to TDP district president 120 Lands to NTR Trusts (in 2 districts) 100 Gains from Support to a Minister who masterminded the Cotton Scam 100 Kickbacks from Bitrates Mines’ Allocation 100 Money made from “Chandranna Gift’ Scheme 100 Land gifted to Galla Family 40 Open Cheating in Goddumarri 25 ‘Additional’ Cost of Nellore Barrage 10 Total: 1,34,295 8 Emperor of Corruption Rs.