BRS To Protest During Modi's Visit Over Singareni "Privatisation"

BRS working president K T Rama Rao called upon the party's activists to stage protests across the Singareni Collieries in Telangana on April 8, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Hyderabad, in protest against the union government's "decision" to conduct an auction for the coal blocks.

Rao also spoke with the district presidents of the BRS and the MLAs of the Singareni Collieries areas, and discussed with them an action plan to organise the protests.

He said that the party's cadres should organise dharnas in a big way along with the workers of the Singareni Collieries in Mancheriyal, Bhupalpalli, Peddapalli and Ramagundam towns, to express resentment against the union government's moves to auction the coal blocks.

Despite several requests made by the State government seeking a halt to all moves to auction the coal blocks, the union government was adamant in the matter and had issued a notification for the auction of the Sattupalli Block 3 and the Sharavanapalli block, KTR claimed.

The Prime Minister was even blatantly going back on his promise made on November 12, 2022, during his (the PM's) Ramagundam visit that the collieries would not be privatised, and was hell bent on obstructing the growth of Telangana by privatising the collieries, KTR alleged.

He warned that the BRS would intensify its protest with the support of the workers in the days to come if the Centre failed to withdraw its decision of auctioning the blocks.