The Bharatiya Janata Party has sought the resignation of Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao by taking moral responsibility for the ongoing TSRTC strike and because 50,000 employees have not heeded his call to return to work despite threats and coercion, indicating that people have lost confidence in him.
“KCR is solely responsible for current crisis in Telangana where administration and the daily lives of people has come to a standstill due to the RTC stir. Things would not have to come to such a pass if he would have lived up to his promises made during the separate state agitation or had held talks without resorting to intimidation and falsehoods,” said president K. Laxman on Wednesday.
Talking to press persons at the State office and flanked by fellow leaders including G. Sukhender Reddy, MP D. Aravind, spokesperson Krishna Sagar Rao and others, Mr. Laxman said all sections of the society like employees, students and others have been hit hard due to lack of proper public commute and there does not appear to be any respite in sight with the government adamant about its posture. The government does not seem to be interested in resolving the issue with its Ministers and ruling party MLAs making caustic remarks on the agitating employees who had disregarded financial constraints to continue the stir till their main demands are met, he charged.
“The Chief Minister put three deadlines, but only 300 employees joined which indicates the workers have been victorious. The strike is more severe than what was witnessed during agitation for separate State. We are with the employees and will support any initiative if they are going to intensify the agitation because the High Court’s caustic remarks too has not moved this government to call for talks,” explained the BJP leader.
The party chief stated that the new MV Act was meant to curb high rate of road accidents in the country and promote safe driving but the Telangana Chief Minister has been twisting facts to claim that the Centre had permitted privatisation of RTCs under it. “In any case, it was announced in the Legislative Assembly that Telangana would not implement the new Act so the CM cannot use it as a fig leaf,” he said.
Without dividing assets and liabilities with Andhra Pradesh and not having a full-fledged board, the government has no right to take major decisions, Mr. Laxman maintained.
