AICC official spokesperson D Sravan lashed out at State govt and questioned whether the Dalit Bandhu programme held at Huzurabad on Monday was a TRS party programme or a government programme
The Chief Minister, in the course of his 50-minute address, praised Ambedkar for helping Dalits get some respite through reservations in education and jobs.
All the Dalits who attended the launch programme were lavish in their praise for CM KCR, stating that the move would help in comprehensive development of the community which remained backward even 75 years after independence.
The Chief Minister paid tributes to the portraits of Dr BR Ambedkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram before formally launching the Dalit Bandhu scheme at a massive public meeting held in Shalapally
Of more than 20,000 Dalit families, around 2,000 eligible beneficiaries will receive financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh in their bank accounts immediately
"Opposition leaders, who appreciated Rythu Bandhu when it was launched in Huzurabad, are unable to digest the launch of Dalit Bandhu ahead of the bypolls," says the Minister
Following the Cabinet decision recently to implement the scheme, the State government has allocated Rs 1,200 crore to benefit all the eligible SC families in Huzurabad constituency.
Rahul Bojja conducted review meeting with mandal resource persons and district officials to discuss about the Dalit Bandhu scheme at the Collectorate conference hall here on Wednesday.
Ministers Gangula Kamalakar and Koppula Eashwar, along with District Collector RV Karnan, Commissioner of Police V Satyanarayana and other officials, on Tuesday examined the meeting venue in Shalapalli
Party sources said the TRS President and CM K Chandrashekhar Rao was seriously considering a few names ranging from party loyalists to the new entrants into the party for the bypoll