Vijayawada: YSRC president and former CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of taking credit for Andhra Pradesh’s improved Access Equality Index (AEI), in which the state has risen from the 10th rank in 2021 to third in 2024.
In a post on X addressed to the AP CM, Jagan Mohan Reddy accused the TD-led NDA government of claiming credit for an achievement that, he said, of a result of the previous YSRC government’s policies.
He pointed out that O.P. Jindal Global University, in association with the Centre for New Economic Studies, had published the AEI report in 2024, ranking states on five pillars linked to social and human development. The rankings had been based on a composite index calculated by assigning weights to the five pillars. The university had conducted a similar exercise in 2021.
The YSRC president said the statistics used for 2021 report related to the period before 2019, while those used for 2024 report covered 2021 to 2023. He said a comparison of the two reports reflects the state’s socio-economic position before and after the YSRC government took office.
Referring to the Health Index Score, the former chief minister said Andhra Pradesh has improved from eighth rank in 2021 to second in 2024. In the Socio-Economic Security category, the state moved from 11th to first rank, while in Legal Recourse, it improved from the 15th to second position.
Jagan Mohan Reddy said the state’s overall composite ranking has improved from 10th in 2021 to third in 2024, attributing the progress to the YSRC government’s emphasis on socio-economic programmes.
The former chief minister rejected Chandrababu Naidu’s claim that the state had been on a ventilator during the previous YSRC government’s tenure.
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