Even as the Telugu Desam Party leaders are raising a hue and cry over the withdrawal of pilot and escort vehicles for their party president and leader of opposition N Chandrababu Naidu, the Andhra Pradesh government has provided brand new vehicles to YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
On Monday, a batch of new vehicles have replaced the earlier ones in the convoy of Jagan Reddy. As many as six black-coloured high-end Toyota Fortuner cars have been inducted into the chief minister’s convoy.
The vehicles in the convoy were allotted a new number: AP39PA2345. All of them have been made bullet proof cars at huge expenditure.
The decision to provide new cars in Jagan’s convoy was apparently taken by the chief minister’s security authorities in the police department keeping in view the security requirements of the CM.
The earlier batch of cars being used by Jagan till now have been sent to Hyderabad and would be used for the chief minister, whenever he comes to Hyderabad.
In fact, compared to the new fleet of cars procured by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the new cars acquired by Jagan Reddy are not very expensive.
The Telangana chief minister had acquired as many as 10 high-end Land Cruiser Prados and Fortuners into his convoy after coming to power for the second time in December last. This new fleet replaced earlier batch of Toyota Fortuner cars he had bought in 2014.
So, within five years, he replaced his cars twice!