Setting the tone for reviving the Congress party in Telangana State, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said the TPCC would come out with an action plan soon to take up constituency-wise programmes to strengthen the party and fight against the “dictatorial regime” of the TRS.
A conspiracy is being hatched by the persons at the helm of affairs to eliminate the rival political parties by misusing power and official machinery, he charged, asserting that the Congress party leaders and cadres will not be cowed down by such “intimidating tactics.”
We will expose the evil designs of the ruling party and wage relentless struggles valiantly to safeguard people’s interests, he added.
Mr. Vikramarka, who represents Madhira Assembly constituency, was speaking at a meeting conducted by the District Congress Committee here on Monday to felicitate him on his appointment as the TPCC working president by the party high command recently.
The Congress senior leaders, including MLAs R. Venkat Reddy and P. Ajay Kumar, MLC P. Sudhakar Reddy and former Ministers belonging to the district were present.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Vikramarka said the TRS government presented two Budgets ever since it took over reins of the new State of Telangana.
The TRS regime miserably failed to allocate requisite funds to its much-touted three acres land to landless SC families and other schemes in its Budgets, he charged.
This government allocated Rs 1,000 crore for the land scheme in 2014-15 Budget, but spent less than Rs. 10 crore as against the actual requirement of Rs. 34,000 crore per year to implement the scheme for extending the benefit to around seven lakh landless SC families in the State in five years, he noted.
He termed the Chief Minister’s two-day visit to the district on Friday and Saturday as a “rhetoric trip.”
The State government’s decision to set up four units of 270 MW each in Manuguru by using the turbines of some cancelled coal blocks elsewhere in the country, would prove to be a huge burden on the State exchequer, he said.
