Hyderabad: The Congress party has questioned the
silence of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao over injustice done to
Telangana State in the Interim Union Budget 2019-20.
"KCR is among a few Chief Ministers who did not
express their views directly on the BJP Government's interim budget. A few TRS
leaders issued formal statements while the Chief Minister himself chose to
remain silent," alleged Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC)
Treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy in a media statement on Monday. He said KCR
should have addressed a press conference immediately after the presentation of
interim budget on 1st February. But the Chief Minister not only maintained
silence, but making serious attempts to divert people's attention to other
issues, he alleged.
Gudur Narayana Reddy demanded that the Chief Minister
adopt a 'loud tone' from the present 'whispering tone' in speaking against
Prime Minister Narender Modi and his government. "Telangana did not get
its due share in all the Union Budgets presented by the BJP Government. None of
the promises made with Telangana in Andhra Pradesh Reorganistaion Act have been
fulfilled. Railway Coach Factory at Qazipet, Steel Plant at Bayyaram or other
Central projects remained a non-starter. Despite the recommendation by the NITI
Ayog, Telangana was denied funds for Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya and
Kaleshwaram project. But KCR never gathered courage to register strong protest
against the Modi Government," he said.
The Congress leader said that TRS leaders were feeling
elated by claiming that the Centre has copied its Rythu Bandhu scheme by
offering investment support to farmers. He said that the Congress party has
pointed out on several occasions that the Rythu Bandhu scheme itself was not
comprehensive and does not cover all farmers, especially the tenant farmers.
Further, he said that the Central Government's proposed income support scheme
promising Rs. 6,000 to farmers holding less than 5 acres of land was erratic
and it could be well described as 'Too Little and Too Late'. He said the way
KCR Govt tried to lure farmers by launching Rythu Bandhu scheme a few months
before Assembly elections, Modi Govt too introduced the scheme with less than
three months left for General Elections. He said if both TRS and BJP
Governments were sincere towards farmers, then they would launched this schemes
in the first or second year of their regimes.
Gudur Narayana Reddy said that the KCR's silence
against the Centre clearly shows that he was pro-Modi and pro-BJP. He dared KCR
to hold protest against the BJP Government for the injustices it did with
Telangana during the last five years. He demanded that KCR present a
statistical report on year-wise funds released by the Centre as against the
demand made by the Telangana Government.
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