KTR flays Congress, Modi for repeated failures

Minister KT Rama Rao flayed the Congress party for failing to develop the State even after ruling it for 55 years

Bellampalli/Peddapalli: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Monday flayed the Congress party for failing to develop the State even after ruling it for 55 years.

Addressing a gathering after handing over ownership documents to occupants of lands belonging to the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) at Bellampalli, the Minister found fault with TPCC president A Revanth Reddy for requesting the people to provide an opportunity for the Congress to rule the State.

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Asking what the Congress had done for Telangana when it was in power for 55 years, he said people faced a slew of challenges during the Congress regime, with the party completely ignoring the development of Telangana.

The Minister recalled that Bellampalli used to experience severe water crisis every summer. But now, drinking water was available at the doorstep of every home, thanks to Mission Bhagiratha. Farmers were struggling to get uninterrupted supply of power in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. Now, they were getting 24 hours of free power. The credit goes to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s efforts to ensure quality electricity to agriculture needs, he said, asking the people to compare the development and welfare schemes in the neighbouring Chhattisgarh ruled by the Congress and those in Telangana.

Rama Rao also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, he said, had failed to deliver his promise in 2014 of crediting Rs.15 lakh into accounts of the public. Modi, who was striving to protect the interests of his friend Gautam Adani, had earlier criticised former PM Manmohan Singh for hiking the price of LPG cylinders to around Rs.400. But under his rule, the same now had touched Rs.1,200 per cylinder, he said. Recalling Modi’s assurance of two crore jobs per annum, he asked why the BJP was now taking up padayatras demanding jobs in Telangana. He dared Modi to sanction a medical college to Bellampalli where the State government had constructed a 100-bedded hospital recently. The Minister also found fault with BJP State president Bandi Sanjay for dubbing Modi a God. “How come Modi is a god? Is he a God for raising the cost of LPG cylinders, essentials and fuel? For whom is he a God?” he asked.

The coming polls, he said, would be a war between creators and destroyers.

Later, speaking after inaugurating the Ramagundam Police Commissionerate office in Godavarikhani, he said the State police, to maintain internal security, were working on par with Army personnel protecting the country on the border. During the time of the Statehood movement, doubts were raised of communal and extremist threats if Telangana was formed. However, proving all doubts wrong, the Telangana Police had emerged as a role model to the country in maintaining law and order, utilizing technology, and providing better services to the public.

The State government had also become a role model to the nation in implementing various schemes for the welfare of the police. Referring to martyred cop Kistaiah, the Minister said the State government had provided all support to his family. Besides providing a job to his son, Kistaiah’s daughter Priyanka was helped to pursue MBBS. She was now working as a doctor in a Basthi Dawakhana in Karimnagar.