No power-sharing in Telangana, says Deputy CM amid Karnataka turmoil

Deputy Chief Minister said the Telangana government would introduce Rohith Vemula law shortly and the law department was already working on drafting a foolproof piece of legislation.

Hyderabad: In an interesting assertion, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said that unlike in Karnataka, there was no power-sharing model in Telangana. In the wake of Congress government in Karnataka hitting headlines over possible change in the leadership, the Deputy Chief Minister asserted that all the Congress Ministers in Telangana were working as a team.

In an informal chat with media persons in New Delhi, he clarified that it was a policy decision not to waive the farmers’ crop loans beyond Rs. 2 lakh per family, he said. Regarding the Musi Rejuvenation Project, the Deputy Chief Minister stressed that the River Musi works would be executed at any cost and completed within the current term of the Congress government. Similarly, the Fourth City works were also being taken up, he said.

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Exuding confidence that there was no scope for formation of a “Double Engine Sarkar” in Telangana, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said the AICC Chief Mallikarjun Kharge and AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal had expressed happiness over the Telangana government’s performance.

Earlier addressing a press conference at AICC Headquarters, the Deputy Chief Minister said the Telangana government would introduce Rohith Vemula law shortly and the law department was already working on drafting a foolproof piece of legislation.

The government had already submitted a note to the court seeking permission to reopen the Rohith Vemula case and none involved in the case would be spared, he assured.

He also accused former MLC and the State BJP president N Ramchander Rao of exerting pressure on local police to file cases against five students of the University of Hyderabad in the past.

Unable to withstand the mounting pressure, the university management expelled Rohith Vemula and his peers from the hostel and this had forced him to die by suicide, he said, adding that Ramchander Rao is now appointed as BJP State president.