Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy leads YSRCP 1 cr signature drive against medical colleges privatisation

Tirupati: Kadapa MP Y S Avinash Reddy launched the YSRCP's one crore signature campaign in his parliamentary constituency, protesting the state government's alleged move to privatize government medical colleges in the state. Avinash Reddy personally affixed his signature to the petition and launched the special drive on Friday. He alleged that the current regime is systematically reversing the beneficial policies of the previous YSRCP government, specifically targeting the new medical colleges."The colleges are meant to serve the poor under the public system, but they are privatised in a hasty manner to benefit a few and make medical services ill-affordable," Avinash Reddy lamented. He warned that this decision would "shatter the medical education dreams of the poor students."In Tirupati, the campaign was led by assembly constituency coordinator and former deputy mayor Bhumana Abhinay Reddy. Abhinay Reddy condemned the NDA government for allegedly spreading misinformation and "systematically spreading lies" claiming that the medical colleges established under former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy were unfit for opening. He contrasted this with the previous TDP regime under Chandrababu Naidu, noting that it had not added a single medical college to the state in the last fourteen years.The YSRCP's campaign aims to mobilise public opposition to pressure the government into halting any privatization plans for the public medical institutions.