TDP slams Andhra govt over Machilipatnam port contract cancellation

Telugu Desam Party leaders and former ministers Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao and Kollu Ravindra on Monday criticised the YSR Congress Party government's decision to cancel the contract for the development of the Machilipatnam port.

At a press conference here in the evening, Rao lamented the way the Andhra Pradesh government had issued a midnight order last Thursday, dropping Navayuga group as the developer of the port in Machilipatnam.

The TDP leader said the order had been issued without the order number and the copy was marked to the district collector of Guntur instead of Krishna. He alleged that the state government was in a hurry to shift the port outside Machilipatnam.

Rao pointed out that the previous TDP government cleared the hurdles in acquiring the land for the Machilipatnam port and kick-started the construction work in February He said Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy should offer clarity on the future course of the port project