The State government’s project to build the office-cum-residence for each of 104 MLAs, each costing around ₹1 crore, has evoked sharp response from the Opposition which termed it a ‘criminal waste of public money’.
The construction of the office-cum-residence (or camp office) has already begun in 65 constituencies, where they are in different stages of construction, the State government has said.
The camp office in Parakal Assembly segment in Warangal district, represented by C. Dharma Reddy of the ruling TRS, has been completed at a cost of ₹68,92,448 and is scheduled to be inaugurated on Thursday.
The objective of the scheme is to make MLAs accessible to their electorate at all times, a release from the Roads and Buildings department said and it has been taken up in 104 Assembly constituencies in the State except 15 segments in Hyderabad City, it added.
However, the opposition BJP termed the scheme a ‘criminal waste of public money’. “The BJP denounces Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao spending over ₹100 crore on MLA camp offices across the State. The BJP considers it as criminal waste of public money,” Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said in a statement.
Taxpayers’ money
The TRS government was completely disregarding the accountability in spending taxpayers’ money for personal comforts of the MLAs and satiating their luxuries in the name administrative infrastructure, he added. The TRS government has not fulfilled its election promise of building double bedroom houses for the poor so far, but it is constructing “second official homes” for the Chief Minister and the MLAs, he said.
“The Chief Minister has built a second official home for himself with around ₹100 crore and also building second homes for the MLAs across the State with another ₹100 crore. The TRS party will surely pay a heavy price for this misadventure and mockery of electoral promises that they have made to the people of Telangana,” the BJP spokesperson said.
