Harish Rao calls Telangana govt’s 99-day action plan as diversion exercise

BRS leader T Harish Rao criticised the Congress government’s 99-day action plan Praja Palana–Pragati Pranalika, calling it a publicity exercise to divert attention from governance failures, unfulfilled promises, farmer issues, job delays and shortcomings in key sectors such as health and education

Hyderabad: BRSLP deputy leader T Harish Rao on Friday criticised the Congress government’s 99-day action plan titled “Praja Palana–Pragati Pranalika”, calling it a diversionary exercise aimed at masking governance failures. He said the action plan was nothing more than a publicity drive launched after nearly 800 days of disastrous governance.

Reacting to the launch of the action plan, the former Minister sought to know what the government had achieved in the past two and a half years to organise such an event. He reiterated that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was staging a drama to deflect attention from unfulfilled promises, including six guarantees and over 420 promises, as well as alleged scams and administrative lapses.

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“Lakhs of applications submitted by people during earlier Praja Palana Gram Sabhas are still lying unresolved. Instead of addressing those issues, the government has come up with yet another ten-week publicity programme,” he said.

Harish Rao also raised concerns over issues affecting farmers and unemployed youth. He pointed out that farmers were yet to receive the promised crop bonuses and had faced shortages of fertilisers such as urea. On employment, he accused the government of failing to deliver on its promise of two lakh jobs in the first year and turning the job calendar into a jobless calendar.

The BRSLP deputy leader stated that primary sectors such as health, education and rural development were facing serious shortcomings, including shortages of medicines in hospitals and lack of infrastructure in schools. He said routine administrative responsibilities such as sanitation in offices and clearance of pending files were now being projected as special initiatives under the action plan.

“The government is spending more time on publicity than governance,” he said, adding that people across the State were closely watching the developments and were ready to confront the government on pending issues affecting them.