Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has lambasted the TRS Government accusing it of doling out ₹ 20,000 crore to the contractors of the Water Grid (Mission Bhageeratha) Scheme and various irrigation projects during the current fiscal, leaving the distressed farmers, students, weaker sections in dire straits.
The TRS regime has earned notoriety for nepotism, extravagance, corruption and misrule in the last over two and a half years of its rule, he charged, accusing the State Government of showing “callous indifference” towards the plight of bereaved families of the farmers who ended their lives in distress.
He was speaking at a well-attended meeting held as part of “Jana Avedana Sammelan” in Kusumanchi on Thursday night.
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Digvijay Singh, Rajya Sabha member Renuka Chowdary, TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, MLC P. Sudhakar Reddy and a host of other senior party leaders attended the meeting.
The TRS regime is trying to derive political mileage by projecting the Bhakta Ramadasu lift irrigation project as its major achievement, he flayed, noting that the NSP and SRSP canals based on which the project was operationalised were constructed by the successive Congress governments in the past.
Congress sure to win
The Congress will win the next general elections with a thumping majority and take the reins of the State to end the miseries of farmers and other toiling masses, Mr. Reddy asserted.
Earlier, commotion prevailed at the beginning of the meeting when some Congress leaders expressed objection to the presence of a leader from Kothagudem on the dais branding him as a “political opportunist.”
A heated argument ensued between Ms. Renuka and Mr. Sudhakar Reddy over the issue in the presence of Mr. Digvijay Singh. The meeting resumed following the intervention of the senior leaders.
