The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana unit has accused the TRS Government of misusing official machinery as well as making use of money and muscle power to ‘somehow win the trade union polls in the Singareni Collieries’.
“Never before a Chief Minister had interfered in a trade union poll and he is setting a bad precedent. If Mr. KCR’s administration has been so good where is the need to offer sops on the eve of polls to the workers instead of fulfilling assurances made earlier. For the last three years the ruling party’s union has been in power so what have they done?,” asked BJP Floor Leader G. Kishan Reddy on Monday.
Addressing a joint press conference with Council leader N. Ramachander Rao at the State Party office, he said that the entire TRS Party was being mobilised for the trade union polls. “There are many indications that the TRS-backed union will lose badly so they have upped the ante with CM’s family members, Ministers, MLAs and others being pressed into action, luring or threatening coal workers,” he maintained.
From dependent jobs to jobs on compassionate grounds, free houses to subsidised housing, etc., KCR has been shifting stances and making new promises, he added. The BJP leaders wondered why the coal workers were not eligible for free housing and other emoluments being given to their fellow workers of Coal India Limited. Plus, the Government’s promise to reimburse the income tax disbursal has not materialised. “If we come to power in 2019, it will be one of the first steps which our Government will take,” said Mr. Reddy.
He also sought to remind that several other promises made during the last elections like setting up of a super speciality hospital were not fulfilled. “His rule has been about big talk and no action, so we are appealing to the workers to vote for BMS which is our nationwide labour union and give a shock treatment to KCR and his party backed union,” he added.
