Harish accuses govt of going back on its promises

Former Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday accused the Congress of failing to fulfil the promises made by it to the people. The Congress party duped the people after using them as its vote bank.
Addressing a gathering after distributing the Chief Minister Relief Fund cheques to beneficiaries at his camp office here, he alleged that the Congress party ahead of elections, to grab power from the BRS, made several promises to the people. Later, upon coming to power it went back, he alleged.
The Congress government threw electoral promises made by it to the winds, he said. He charged the Congress with misleading the people. The Congress failed to implement Asara pensions, Rytu Bandhu scheme, Kalyana Lakshmi scheme, Rytu Bharosa and so on. He was quick to point out that the Congress promised to give Rs 1 lakh and one tola of gold to the beneficiaries of Kalyana Lakshmi.
Moreover, there were allegations that the government failed to ensure that all farmers secured loan waiver benefit.
Further, he charged the Congress government with not paying the Asara pensions, paid by the previous BRS regime. The Kalayana Lakshmi cheques were not being disbursed for the past eight months, he said. The Rytu Bandhu scheme’s name was changed to that of Rytu Bharosa but it did not disburse  a single paisa to the farmers, he said.
In the first phase, only some farmers were given the benefit of Rythu Bandhu.
With the input subsidy not coming from government, the area of cultivation under various crops shrunk to a large extent, he observed.
The mid-day  meals workers and workers employed in SC, ST, BC residential schools are going without salaries for the past eight months, he said.
Sanitation was at its worst in villages and garbage piled up in streets and became breeding grounds for flies and mosquitoes, posing the problem of outbreak of dengue and other seasonal diseases, he said.
The CMRF will be useful for the poor when they faced with serious health complications, he said exhorting the people to make use of it.
He demanded the state government to immediately release CMRF cheques to the needy without playing with the lives of the poor.
Municipal Chairman Rajnars, former market committee chairman Bala Sairam, councillors Ravinder, Kanakaraju and others were present.