Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has challenged the Opposition to a debate on the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s credentials as the best performing government in the implementation of welfare programmes.
“We have spent Rs. 28,000 crore on the implementation of welfare programmes.” Such large expenditure was possible because the money of Telangana was spent on itself. In the past, it was spent on coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema, he said at the TRS public meeting at the Parade Grounds here on Monday.
Mr. Rao was particularly harsh on his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu for not leaving Telangana and, instead, putting spokes in the wheel. Mr. Naidu created controversies for Telangana on a daily basis.
Except media management, nothing took place in Andhra Pradesh, he added. He promised to develop Hyderabad as a global city on the lines of Dallas in three years. Mr. Rao compared the de-siltation of tanks under the Mission Kakatiya programme to clearing the sins that the people of Telangana had accumulated in combined Andhra Pradesh.
The government is taking steady steps to usher in a ‘golden’ era in Telangana aimed at improving the lives of the poor. He recalled the separate Telangana movement launched by TRS in 2001 and how it was intensified with his indefinite hunger strike in November 2009. The people responded well to his call for struggle.
Stating that he was dedicating the victory of Telangana to the people, he said what was expected of the new government was action. The only dream that was left to be achieved was the revival of the golden period of Telangana. He wanted to see brightness on the faces of people.
