PNS|Sangareddy
Minister for Finance T Harish Rao on Saturday launched a broadside against the Congress party by saying that “the Congress will bring back broker regime if voted to power.”
Speaking at a meeting, shortly after distributing BC Bandhu cheques to beneficiaries here, the Minister said that the brokers used to have a stranglehold on the land transactions in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government ended the broker regime.
No Congress party-ruled State in the country can match Telangana in the implementation of welfare schemes. Telangana is the only State which has been providing round-the-clock free power to the farmers. The BJP and the Congress governments failed to provide 24×7 free power to farmers, Harish Rao asserted. He skewered Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A Revanth Reddy for advocating that the power supply to farmers be restricted to three hours. The BJP-led Central government exerted pressure on the State government to fix meters to agricultural pump sets. But Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao firmly rejected it. The people would teach both parties a bitter lesson, he said.
The State government under the leadership of the Chief Minister regularised the services of panchayat raj secretaries and VRAs and released funds for waiver of crop loans. The government merged the TSRTC with the government. With the Chief Minister fulfilling all the election promises, the Congress party was bereft of any issue to raise in the State, the Minister pointed out. Harish Rao reiterated that the BC Bandhu scheme was a continuous process.
The Telangana State, which represents only 3 per cent of the country’s population, secured 38 per cent of national-level awards. The credit for it should go to the dedicated services provided by Panchayat Raj secretaries.
The Telangana government is committed to the welfare of all sections of people. He was speaking at the meeting organised to distribute Rs 1 lakh financial assistance to those among the Backward Classes depending on caste-based professions.
The government, he said, had introduced several programmes for the welfare of people depending on caste-based professions. The government, he said, has been implementing several programmes for the welfare of the Backward Classes. Before the formation of Telangana State, the poor were driven from pillar to post for securing a loan. But in the new State of Telangana, the State government has been giving Rs 1 lakh as a grant to people depending on caste-based professions, he observed.
Zilla Parishad Chairperson P Manjusri, District Collector A Sharat, Telangana Stat Handloom Corporation chairman Chinta Prabhakar and others were present.
