The way pro-Telugu Desam Party media carried a big story on the constraints for Visakhapatnam being declared as the administrative capital as mentioned by the five-member experts committee headed by retired IAS officer G N Rao was definitely an embarrassment to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government, if not a setback.
Embarrassing because, the full report of the G N Rao committee was leaked only to a select group of media, favourable to the TDP, knowing fully well that the opposition would use it as a weapon to attack the government.
The YSRC and the government might have enough weapons to counter-attack the TDP, but the leakage of the report to the pro-TDP media only shows the Jagan government’s lack of control over his administration.
Both the GN Rao committee report and the BCG reports are confidential and not public documents, like Sivaramakrishnan Committee report. Both the reports were not tabled in the assembly.
The government only released the operative portions of the reports and constituted an expert committee report to study them and come out with an action plan on the three capitals.
So, how could these confidential reports come into public domain and leaked to only select media houses?
Definitely, it must be the handiwork of some officials at the highest level in the Jagan government. These days, even the most confidential government orders are being accessed by the TDP, thanks to such kind of officials.
The TDP which had been in power for more than five years would have its own moles in the government to gain access to such confidential information.
As an opposition party, it is fully justified in doing so. But the YSRC government should have taken all precautions to prevent such leakage of information to the opposition.
That is where the government is failing. Anybody listening?