An opposition spokesperson says Rayalaseema cement plants are being squeezed for ash and transport contracts. There is no first-information report on this card.

The charge is ash, transport and contracts. The paper under it is a Saturday press conference, not a police station diary.

On Saturday, 22 August 2026, YSRCP spokesperson Putta Sivasankar Reddy spoke at the party’s central office in Tadepalli. He alleged that industries are being driven out of Andhra Pradesh by harassment and extortion demands from coalition leaders. He said the industrial sector had plunged into crisis after the coalition took office, and that even existing investors were leaving. Those sentences are opposition allegations. They are not a first-information report. They are not a company confirmation. This desk will keep them labelled as allegations.

He cited two exits, as alleged by him. A Tata Power project of ₹6,675 crore proposed in Nellore, he said, moved to Odisha. A Websol project of ₹3,538 crore planned at Naidupeta, he said, relocated to West Bengal. He demanded that the government explain those exits. ₹6,675 crore and ₹3,538 crore are the project figures he put on the record. Moved and relocated are his verbs. This desk has no Odisha or West Bengal government confirmation on this card and will not invent one.

He challenged the government’s claim of attracting ₹24 lakh crore in investments and creating 20 lakh jobs. He asked that project and beneficiary details be placed in public. If all 20 lakh jobs cannot be disclosed, he said, at least 10 percent should be. A challenge is not a finding that the claim is false. A demand for a 10 percent list is not the list itself. This desk will not invent either the full roster or the 10 percent sample.

He alleged that the government took back land allotted in the Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy tenure to Coca-Cola in Anakapalli and to Azad Mobility in Sri Sathya Sai district, and cancelled land linked to GINFRA and Jupiter projects, affecting employment. Allegation only. This desk will not invent a land-survey number, a cancellation gazette, or a jobs-lost count that is not on the card.

On cement and thermal industries across Rayalaseema, he said coalition leaders were seeking transport, ash and other contracts, and named UltraTech, Dalmia, Vicat, Srichakra and Bharathi Cements as facing repeated interference and intimidation. Those five names are on his Saturday list. This desk will not pin a plant gate, a named Telugu Desam Party leader, or a local middleman from any other week’s briefing onto this card. There is no first-information report on this desk. There is no named local leader on this card. There is none here.

He said Andhra Pradesh had ranked No. 1 in Ease of Doing Business in the previous tenure, including through Covid, and had slipped to eighth. Rank one to rank eight is his comparison. It is not an independent audit this desk is reprinting as its own finding. He criticised an industry-chamber award to the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation after the corporation raised ₹9,000 crore on the State’s mineral wealth, calling it corporate lobbying. ₹9,000 crore is the raise he cited. Corporate lobbying is his phrase. No government reply is on this filing. This desk will not invent a rebuttal.

Tadepalli is the dateline. Rayalaseema is the geography of the cement-and-ash charge. Guntur district holds the party office. Nellore and Naidupeta appear only as the alleged exit origins he named. This desk will not turn Saturday’s microphone into Monday’s chargesheet.

The honest picture is a Saturday Tadepalli press conference, an opposition allegation of coalition extortion, two cited project exits at ₹6,675 crore and ₹3,538 crore, a challenged ₹24 lakh crore and 20 lakh jobs claim, land-takeback allegations around Coca-Cola, Azad Mobility, GINFRA and Jupiter, five named cement companies said to face ash-and-transport pressure, an Ease of Doing Business slip from first to eighth as alleged, a ₹9,000 crore mineral-raise criticism, and no police paper. Until a station writes a first-information report, or a company confirms, or the government answers on this card, Rayalaseema’s ash-and-transport charge remains what it is: an allegation spoken into a microphone.