Andhra Pradesh Minister for Civil Supplies N Manohar took potshots at former Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and accused the latter of turning the Kakinada Port into a ‘smuggling den’.
Stating that illegal rice exports worth Rs 48,537 crore, amounting to over 1.3 crore MT, were routed through Kakinada Port under the erstwhile YSRCP regime, the Minister said, Jaganmohan Reddy-led government brought infamy to the port.
“In the past three fiscal years, Rs 48,537 crore worth of rice was exported from Kakinada Port alone, indicating the scale of the rice mafia. People need to understand this,” Manohar said.