YSRCP sceptical about success of A.P. govt.’s ‘P4’ programme

The much-touted Public Private People Partnership (P4) programme taken up by the State government is bound to fail, predicted the YSR Congress state spokesperson and former MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy.

While adoption of poor people is a voluntary action coming out of noble intent, it can’t be thrusted on government employees and officers, as is being done by the incumbent government, he explained.

Addressing a media conference here on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) along with the city Mayor B.R. Sireesha Yadav, Mr. Reddy derided the scheme as the Chandrababu Naidu government’s vain attempt to match up to the welfare schemes launched by the previous government.

“The kind-hearted Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy spent lakhs of crores of rupees from the state exchequer to eradicate poverty in the state. On the contrary, the present Chief Minister is trying to force the rich to adopt the poor, by showing the empty coffers”, he ridiculed.

Calling P4 as a ‘futile attempt’ to get the rich to adopt the poor, he explained the rationale behind the concept. “For two centuries, we have seen the history of the oppressors always going against the oppressed. In the same vein, the super-rich will never be interested in bailing the poor out of their financial debt trap and as such, any such attempt is bound to fail”, he said.