The Congress and the YSR Congress came down heavily on the Railway Budget, terming it as an insult to the two States and demanded that the two Chief Ministers K. Chandrasekhar Rao and N. Chandrababu Naidu, reject it outright.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Md. Ali Shabbir, livid at the allocations, said Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao should lead a protest at Jantar Mantar. He derided TRS MP K. Kavitha for praising the budget.
At a press conference here on Friday, he said the allocation of Rs. 2,768 crore for the South Central Railway was insufficient. He said the meagre allocation was an open insult to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, whose individual annual budgets exceed Rs. 1 lakh crore each.
YSR Congress Telangana spokesperson Konda Raghava Reddy, at another press conference, demanded that the Chief Ministers of both States react adequately to highlight the neglect. “While the TDP has an alliance, the TRS has no such understanding but still has been silent on the injustice meted out to Telangana,” he said.
