Majlis president Asaduddin Owaisi wants to wait for another year before judging the TRS government on the development front. He feels Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is doing just fine in addressing the problems of minorities through various schemes despite teething problems of staff crunch and allocation. “I will not give him marks yet but wait for another year to judge his performance,” says Mr. Owaisi.
The Hyderabad MP, however, feels the TRS government suffered the biggest setback on account of the ‘fake’ encounter of Alair in which five Muslim undertrial prisoners were shot dead.
In an interview to The Hindu on the eve of the first anniversary of Telangana State formation, Mr. Owaisi credited KCR with leading the longest people’s movement after Jaya Prakash Narayan.
He put his own life in danger for achieving statehood to Telangana. In the run up to the elections, KCR expressed strongly against encounter killings. “Yet an encounter happened under a new government,” Mr. Owaisi said and demanded immediate suspension of the policemen involved.
Mr. Owaisi thinks a big plus point of the TRS government is the clean record of KCR.
There are no allegations of corruption against him. In fact KCR sent a strong message by sacking his deputy, Rajaiah, on corruption charges.
The Majlis leader doesn’t want to comment on the TRS moving closer to the BJP. “We will wait and watch but definitely oppose if TRS joins NDA,” Mr. Owaisi said.
TRS government suffered the biggest setback on account of the ‘fake’ Alair encounter
Asaduddin Owaisi
Majlis president
