: The Telangana TDP leaders used the Mahanadu as a platform to launch a broadside against the TRS government for “rampant corruption” across the departments and schemes.
The TRS failed to implement its promises like making a Dalit Chief Minister of the new State, three-acre land to eligible Dalit families, 12 per cent quota for minorities and the Scheduled Tribes, double bedroom houses to the poor and creation of lakhs of jobs, the TTDP leaders said in separate resolutions passed at the Mahanadu.
Telangana TDP working president A. Revanth Reddy launched a trenchant attack on the TRS government for its failure to fulfil the promises it made before elections. “Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is adopting a dictatorial attitude and stifling the voice of the Opposition parties,” he alleged.
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Mr. Revanth Reddy dismissed claims that the TDP was down and out in Telangana and said the party had embarked upon infusing young blood in the party. The leaders who defected to TRS were regretting their decision as they had already been sidelined by the ruling party's leadership.
“We are aiming at Mission 99, a mission aimed at securing at least 99 of the more than 119 seats in the next elections in 2019,” he said.
The promises made by the government remained on paper and the Telangana Chief Minister's family and relatives were the only beneficiaries, he said.
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The TRS government had failed to provide the assistance promised to the families of 1,569 people who committed suicide for the cause of separate Telangana in 1969 and during the sustained agitation for separate State before 2014.