Tadepalli, June 27 -- Former Chief Minister and YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has strongly criticised the Andhra Pradesh government for jeopardising the livelihoods of nearly 85,000 women engaged in cooking mid-day meals in government schools.

Taking to the X platform, he stated that the government is using the proposed "Smart Kitchens" initiative as a pretext to benefit its own supporters while pushing thousands of women workers, many of whom have served for over two decades, into uncertainty and unemployment.

YS Jagan pointed out that the government has also failed to pay these workers their salaries for the past two months, further worsening their financial hardship.

He recalled that when the YSRCP assumed office, the honorar...