Rama Rao slams BJP for releasing charge sheet
TRS working president K T RamaRao on Tuesday flayed BJP for releasing a charge sheetagainst the party, saying it should instead be against the NDAgovernment for its failures on the economic front and nothelping Telangana.
Rao, son of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, said thecharge sheet released by Union Minister Prakash Javadekar onNovember 22 had described the state government as TRS-MIMgovernment when the reality was it was being run by TRS alone.
“It is a TRS government in this state. There are nopartners for us.
You and PDP were together in Jammu and Kashmir in thepast. You may have had alliances with separatists. But we havenot had alliances with any such people here,”he told reportershere.
Taking a dig at the BJP, he wanted to know whether thecharge sheet was for the TRS achieving unusual progress in sixyears after its formation, even as states like Chattisgarh,Jharkhand and Uttarakhand, formed by the NDA government in2011, were still facing teething troubles.
The NDA governments failures” included a decline ingrowth rate for eight consecutive quarters prior to COVID-19and woes of migrant labourers during the lockdown, he said.
Rao said his governments many achievements includedproviding water facility to drought-prone areas through theKaleswaram project water, Rythu Bandhu investment supportscheme for farmers, insurance and free power supply to themand addressing power shortage in the state Rao, who is also Municipal Administration Minister, saidBJP should clarify whether the NDA government at the Centrehas provided even an additional rupee to Hyderabad andTelangana in the last years.
He demanded to know why Public Sector Units, which bringin crores of Rupees as revenue, were being “sold”, drawing asharp response from senior party leader Muralidhar Rao.
Rama Rao said BJP leaders cite losses as the reason fortrying to sell off Air India as part of disinvestment, buthave no clear answer when asked why they propose a similarexercise for LIC which is running at a profit.
Muralidhar Rao slammed the comments, telling reportersthat a false campaign was being carried out that PSUs like LICand BSNL are being sold off.
“What is the basis to say this? Is it not the BJPgovernment which revived the PSU at Ramagundam (in Telangana)?….Is it not the BJP government which expanded the NTPC,” heasked.
On Raos reported comments that the state gets only 25paise from the centre for every Rs one contributed by it, theBJP leader asked who then would meet the countrys defenceexpenditure and added that it was the language of naxalites.
Rama Rao also alleged that the NDA government had notfulfilled the promises made to Telangana in the Andhra PradeshReorganisation Act in 2014.
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