TPCC vice president and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar has charged Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao with cheating the coal miners of Singareni Collieries Company Limited by promising to revive the dependent employment scheme (DES) and said the promise was only to lure the voters for the ensuing trade union elections.
The High Court had found fault with the SCCL circular on the recruitment process and even the Supreme Court upheld the HC judgement, he pointed out, speaking to newsmen here on Sunday. The former MP asked how the government would take up the recruitment process violating the court orders. He called upon the coal miners to be wary and not get carried away by the promises of the TRS government., which failed to revive the DES since 2014 in spite of including it in its election manifesto. How can the government fulfil the promise now when it failed to do so after three years in power, he asked.
Ridiculing the TRS government for blaming the opposition parties on the failure to revive the scheme, he reminded that it was a Telangana Jagruthi member who had approached the court against the revival of the scheme. If the TRS government was committed to its promise why did it not do so after assuming power in 2014. Further, why could it not issue a circular that would not be struck down by the courts, he asked.
Privatising mines
He said that the TRS government was bent upon privatising the Singareni coal mines and was delaying the revival of the dependent employment scheme. Several coal miners died of mental agony due to non-revival of the scheme, he said.
He appealed to the coal miners to teach a fitting lesson to the TRS-affiliated TGBKS in the elections by defeating it.
Dhoom-dham
The former member of Parliament found fault with Manakondur legislator Rasamayi Balakishan for the conduct of dhoom-dham programme on the Ramleela grounds at LMD quarters on Dasara festival. He demanded an unconditional apology from the TRS legislator to the people of Karimnagar district for conducting such a programme by his dancing company with participation of dancers from Hyderabad at a religious venue.
When the family members of victims of Kaleshwaram tunnel mishap and dalit Mahankali Srinivas, who committed suicide due to delay in sanction of three acres of land, is still fresh in the minds of the bereaved families, it was unfortunate that the Manakondur legislator conducted unethical programme from a religious venue, he said.
