Vijayawada, July 23 -- YSR Congress Party State General Secretary Gadikota Srikanth Reddy on Thursday said that the Chandrababu Naidu government's claims of attracting Rs 23 lakh crore in investments and creating 25 lakh jobs have been completely disproved by the official data released by the Central Government.

Addressing the media at the YSRCP central office at Tadepalli, near here, he said the written reply given in Parliament by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, shows that industrial activity in Andhra Pradesh has been grossly overstated.

"The Centre's data confirms that only 10 industrial projects worth about Rs. 6,900 crore have been grounded in th...