Congress floor leader in the Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir has said that the TRS Government led by K. Chandrashekar Rao is slowly losing popular trust as it failed to implement the poll promises.
Addressing a meeting of minorities at the Congress Bhavan, here on Saturday, he said the Government spent a whopping Rs.200 crore in publicity for the Telangana Formation Day celebrations when the State is reeling under acute drought.
He sought to know whether it was fair on the part of the Government to do this when the farmers faced with crop failure and debt burden are committing suicide.
Referring to the TRS promises such as 12 per cent reservation for SC, STs in education and employment, distribution of three acre land to each landless family and construction of double bedroom houses to the weaker sections, he said that till date there was no inkling of steps being taken to execute them.
Mr. Shabbir said that during the Congress rule as many as 10 lakh students of religious minorities had benefitted with minority reservations and scholarships. He criticised that the Government was doing injustice to the poor families by removing 42,000 ration cards and also a total of 60,000 Aasara pensions under the pretext of their ineligibility for the benefits.
Former Assembly Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy said that the KCR regime was steeped in corruption in the name of redesigning of irrigation projects. The Congress in its ten-year rule constructed several irrigation projects under the Jalayagnam benefitting thousands of farmers, he said.
MLC Akula Lalitha expressed the hope that the Congress would come back to power in 2019.DCC president Taher Bin Hamdan presided. Among those who spoke included TPCC general secretaries Gadugu Gangadhar and Mahesh Goud, party minority cell chairman Mohammed Fakruddin and district chairman Sumeer Ahmed.
‘Rs.200 crore spent on publicity for Formation Day when State is reeling under acute drought’
