Harish Rao denounces prohibitory order at public libraries, demands govt to release job calendar

BRS leader T Harish Rao criticised the Congress government for imposing prohibitory orders at libraries and universities, calling it a move to stifle dissent among Telangana’s unemployed youth. He demanded immediate job notifications and accused the government of failing its promises.

Hyderabad: Former Minister and senior BRS MLA T Harish Rao denounced the imposition of prohibitory orders at public libraries, terming it as an attempt to silence the anger of Telangana’s unemployed youth. He said the Revanth Reddy government was using restrictions as a tool to suppress the dissent among students and unemployed youth.

He ridiculed the ban on protests at universities and public libraries, stating that the government could not extinguish the angst among the unemployed youth with its prohibitory orders. Instead, he demanded that the government release a job calendar and issue notifications to fill two lakh government jobs as promised by the Congress during the elections.

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Harish Rao said the Congress was betraying its seventh guarantee of democratic rule in the State and instead, reviving the Emergency era. He reminded the ruling party of its electoral politics, where Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, had used public libraries to provoke youth to achieve its poll agenda.

“Now, after coming to power, you whitewash libraries with prohibitory orders. How can you justify it?” he charged.

The BRS leader said the job calendar promised by the government had turned into a jobless calendar, with only 12,000 appointments made despite claims of filling 60,000 vacancies under the Congress regime. He said the government was cheating youth on unemployment benefits and stifling dissent by filing illegal cases against protestors.

“Will you impose prohibitory orders on the entire populace of Telangana for questioning your failure?” he asked, demanding that the government stop the politics of suppression and focus on fulfilling its promises to students and the unemployed.