Congress, BJP failed people of Telangana, says TRS

Naveen S Garewal

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, February 24

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Wednesday lashed out at the Congress and BJP for failing people of Telangana time and again saying these parties had no moral right to seek votes in the March 14 graduate MLC elections.

TRS has fielded Surabhi Vani Devi, daughter of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, as its candidate for the upcoming polls to the Telangana Legislative Council from the Graduates’ constituency.

Seeking votes for the party candidate, KTR, who apart from being the working president of the ruling party is also the son of chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) said the Congress had filled only 24,000 jobs in the government sector during its rule in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh between 2004 and 2014. Out of this Telangana got just 10,000 jobs in 10 years.

Addressing the media at the local TRS Bhawan said his government filled 1.32 lakh jobs in the last six years. “I am sharing official statistics and am ready for a debate on recruitments carried out by the TRS government,” KTR said.

Taking on the BJP he said, “The BJP leaders should come up with their achievements before seeking votes.”

He said there has to be a committed effort to address long-pending demands pertaining to the State before seeking votes here. “The Central government had announced 157 medical colleges but not a single college has been allocated to Telangana. Despite BJP being in power at the Centre, the State BJP leaders could not get new projects or get required funds for the existing ones,” he added.

He said the TRS candidate for the Mahabubnagar – Ranga Reddy – Hyderabad Graduates Constituency Surabhi Vani Devi had all the qualifications to contest the elections. “She is humble, polite and service-oriented. Even when late PV Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister, she never tried to misuse power,” he said.