Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy on Wednesday asked Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to release a white paper by March 31, clearly outlining the funds sanctioned and released for the various promises he had made.
At a press conference here, Dr. Reddy said that the decisions taken by Mr. Rao out of ignorance and his inefficiency were beginning to be detrimental to the interests of the much-touted 'Bangaru Telangana' and said taht the Chief Minister owed people an explanation as to what happened to his developmental plans.
Specifically referring to a proposal to shift Chest Hospital in Erragadda to Vikarabad, 80 km away and use the sprawling campus for building the Secretariat, he said, that it amounted to injustice. “Hundreds of poor people come everyday to the Chest Hospital. They cannot afford the expenses to travel that long for their medical needs. He cannot make them travel so far,” the BJP's National Council member said, categorically.
Referring to the much-talked about Kakatiya Mission that envisaged restoration of lakes and tanks or the Water Grid Programme of delivering safe drinking water to every household across the State, he said that there was no clarity on how those programmes were to be taken forward.
“The Chief Minister is announcing Rs. 100 crore for cleaning the Hussainsagar, another Rs. 100 crore to develop Yadagirigutta the temple town and likewise, a similar amount for the MGM Hospital in Warangal. He has spoken of Rs.2,000 crore each for the Kakatiya Mission and the Water Grid. But he has no knowledge of how to borrow money,” the BJP leader regretted.
Dr. Reddy recalled that people had already begun to be disillusioned with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi's all-talk-and-no-action mode.
