The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has rebutted the criticism of the Telangana Government by AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi and termed his comments as immature stating that they were made without having any idea of what is happening in the State.
Minister for Animal Husbandry Talasani Srinivas Yadav, MP Balka Suman and MLC Karne Parbhakar, who spoke to mediapersons separately, said that Rahul Gandhi appeared to have read out what the Congress party’s local (State) leaders had got written for his public address at Sangareddy.
They sought to know why the Congress government in the past had failed to implement nine-hour free power supply to agriculture, failed to give unlimited quantity of rice on ration cards at 6 kg per unit/head, beyond the quota fixed under the Food Security Act, failed to provide super fine variety rice to students in hostels and for mid-day meal scheme and failed to give ₹1,000 and ₹1,500 per month as social security pension to old-aged, widows, beedi workers and now single women.
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By next year-end the TRS Government was also committed to provide piped drinking water to every household in the State under Mission Bhagiratha scheme and to irrigate one-crore acre land by completing various irrigation projects. It would have been helped the stature of Rahul Gandhi had he spoken facts on the issue of employment too, they said adding that the TSPSC would soon give the number of posts filled/recruited and regularised since formation of Telangana.
On the Rahul Gandhi’s comments of family rule by TRS, the ruling party leaders said the Congress had no moral right to speak on it since it was the party which is known for dynasty and family rule starting from Jawaharlal Nehru era.
Family politics
Otherwise too, many Congress leaders including several former chief ministers had their family members in active politics simultaneously, the Congress leaders pointed out.
However, the kin of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had joined the Telangana movement much before State formation and they did not come into politics after the TRS had come to power as in case of the kin of several Congress leaders, they said.
