Hyderabad: Cockroaches, centipedes and bugs out of the blue uncooked on the coronary heart of Andhra Pradesh’s political discourse. It started with a fuss on Monday, with “cockroaches” reportedly showing on the Dwelling Minister’s plates whereas consuming with college students at a social welfare hostel.
The fuss barely died when a “centipede” appeared just a few days later at one other lady’s morning breakfast on the residential faculty of Srikalahasti.
The 2 incidents offered ammunition to the opposition Yubajana Suramika Lito Congress Social gathering (YSRCP) to focus on the state’s Telugu Desam Social gathering-led (TDP) authorities.
YSRCP functionalists accused the NAIDU authorities of offering college students with meals soaked by bugs which are inferior to college students, versus Gorumudda, an upgraded lunch scheme carried out by chief Jagan Mohan Reddy.
“Since Chandrababu Naidu took over, poor high quality supplies, meals invading bugs and air pollution instances have turn into frequent occasions in social welfare faculties and hostels,” Srikalahasti advised Falls, Tirupati’s YSRCP MP is Tirupati’s YSRCP MP.
“Repeated instances of meals poisoning in Andhra Pradesh result in a harmful collapse of hostel administration. College students are given unhygienic meals beneath a system that values cost-saving prices that complement the well being of youngsters.”
Opposition lawmakers mentioned Schooling Minister Nara Rokesh ought to deal with enhancing schooling and meals hygiene in government-run faculties and hostels “as an alternative of concentrating on Jagan and YSRCP in state energy.”
In the meantime, one other incident of meals poisoning at one more lady’s hostel was revealed on Friday. The 20 college students reportedly fell unwell, vomit and complained of diarrhea after consuming contaminated meals at a KGBV hostel within the village of Papilaido Paris beneath the Penuconda constituency.
Minister of Dwelling Affairs got here to examine the BC Hostel @anitha_tdp Persons are criticizing the federal government’s consideration to college students. The Minister says it isn’t cockroaches as a result of this problem is an issue for the federal government…#cbnfailedcm… pic.twitter.com/8q1zed9agy
– YSR Congress Social gathering (@ysrcparty) July 2, 2025
On Tuesday, a video of Anisavangarapudi, who’s visibly upset after discovering a “cockroach” on her meals plate, went viral on the information and social media.
The incident occurred when Payakaraopeta MLA Anitha made an unpublished go to to a welfare employee’s hostel in North Andorra’s constituency on Monday night.
Even when she and the amused women round her had been unable to regulate the laughter at first, Anisa hugged the little creature by the tentacles of the digicam. The repentant minister then denounced the hostel caretakers for poor hygiene and poor meals high quality. The guard was later stopped.
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Harm management
When YSRCP started attacking TDP authorities and schooling minister Nara Rokesh concerning the deplorable state of affairs at faculties and hostels, Anisa entered harm management and held a press convention claiming “what she confirmed was simply hair.”
The minister mentioned, “Opposite to the YSRCP’s claims, she couldn’t discover any cockroaches within the meals served on the hostel.”
She accused the opposition of “intentionally spreading pretend information,” deceptive the general public and damaging the federal government’s picture.
He mentioned the rationale for the pause of the watchman was as a result of workers left the power by 5pm slightly than 9pm when working hours had been completed. She famous that government-prescribed meals menus, together with high-end rice, are usually not supplied on the hostel.
Nevertheless, simply two days later, a sighting of centipedes at UPMA (conventional South Indian breakfast recipe) at Srikalahasti Women’Hostel allowed YSRCP to escalate the assault.
No less than three women needed to be admitted to authorities hospitals to deal with nausea and abdomen pains in Srikalahasti on Thursday after the invention of “Jerri” (centipedes) at UPMA, the place she was consuming for breakfast at a state-run welfare hostel within the temple city close to Tirupati.
Tirupati collector Venkateswar Salamara confirmed in print that three women’ college students have turn into unwell after consuming tiffin at a welfare hostel.
“Border mentioned he discovered a centipede in Upma centipede, and two others additionally complained of nausea and different signs. They had been all rushed to the federal government well being facility the place they had been handled and discharged. Nobody was in peril.”
“We are going to ship out meals samples for testing and based mostly on the investigation, we’ll take motion in opposition to the accountant for the negligence,” the collector mentioned, including that deep cleansing drives had been carried out in such government-run hostels earlier than the current begin of the varsity yr.
Former YSRCP MLA Biyyapu Madhusudhan Reddy, who met the women within the hospital, denounced the TDP-led authorities for failure.
“Different inmates had been warned shortly and stopped contaminated meals consumption, which helps stop a extra severe state of affairs. The women lived in very pathetic conditions and had been offering insufficient and harmful meals,” the previous Srikalahasti MLA mentioned.
In one other controversy, some guests to Sri Brahmaramba Malikaljuna Swamy Temple in Srisylam claimed they’d discovered bugs in Radu, introduced as Prasad from the gross sales counter on June twenty ninth.
Because the video went viral, Temple government officer M. Srinivas revealed within the check that “it seems to be a grasshopper, not a cockroach, and seems to have been deliberately inserted right into a intentionally damaged Radu.”
(adidivity by Saguyu Kaity)
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