All India Congress Committee Scheduled Castes’ cell president K. Raju told the party activists if they sit idle thinking the party will win elections if there is wind in its favour, it will be difficult to come back to power.
“The party will come to power only when you work with honesty, commitment and strong resolution,” he said while addressing a gathering of party booth committee presidents, here on Tuesday.
Appealing to them to use the ‘Shakti’ software application developed with the initiative of AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi through their mobile phones to be in touch with all the cadres, he said that this App would give them strength. He asked them to insist answers on promises made by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao whenever the officials and TRS teams come to their villages for the correction of land records.
Earlier, TPCC working president M. Bhatti Vikramarka said that KCR was posing as if he was the first person to have undertaken the comprehensive survey of land holdings for the benefit of farmers. In fact, it was Congress which implemented the Hyderabad Tenancy Act in 1950, Revenue Records and Pattedar Pass Book Act-1971 and Land Ceiling Act and distributed lakhs of acres of land to the poor, he said.
Referring to the recent incident in Bhoopalapally district, he said that police and Forest Department officials swooped down on innocent Guthi Koya tribal families and razed their houses to the ground as they formed a new settlement in the forest and were resorting to shifting cultivation. They did not leave even women even if they begged touching their feet, he said.
Congress floor leader in the Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir ridiculed that KCR would not sleep unless there was a fresh issue or controversy every day. He wanted to know as to what happened to Samagra Kutumba Survey and Gramajyothi and said that the land survey would also face the same fate.
In his reaction to IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao’s remarks over burning of Bathukamma sarees by women, he said that it was wrong to say that it was a conspiracy hatched by the Congress and “if it did ever undertake such programme”. He said that Congress Governments empowered people by building projects and distributing 47 lakh acres of land.
Leader of Opposition in Assembly K. Jana Reddy and AICC secretary R.C. Kuntia also spoke. DCC president Taher Bin Hamdan presided over the meeting.
