T-Congress Skipped KCR Presentation To Avoid "Lies"

TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka today said that his Party had abstained from the House only to avoid listening to and watching all the "wrong figures" presented by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in his computer presentation in the Legislative Assembly.

On Thursday, the Congress MLAs abstained from the House when the Chief Minister gave a presentation on the State's irrigation projects.

Vikramarka said that the Speaker had set a precedent by allowing the ruling Party to give a computer-based presentation. Such a presentation should have been given in an Assembly Committee Hall, but the ruling Party misused its power by pressurizing the Speaker, he alleged.

Vikramarka also said that there was no response from the Speaker to a letter from the Congress urging him to allow even the Opposition parties to give similar presentations on the subject.

He also added, "We don't want to be a part of the wrong-doings of the ruling Party."

Vikramarka alleged that the Chief Minister had endorsed and ratified the wrong-doings of Maharashtra, which had constructed 450 barrages on the Godavari and Krishna rivers in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Vikramarka also said that it was the Congress that had fetched permissions from the environment department for the SLBC tunnel, and that KCR had basically explained in his presentation about the projects taken up by the previous Congress government.

"There is nothing new. The Chief Minister failed to reveal how the government will complete the projects within five years. And we would have felt happy if the Chief Minister had explained the tendering process (for works worth Rs 2.40 lakh crores) in the same presentation," he alleged.

For his part, KCR flayed the Congress legislators for skipping the House to witness his presentation, alleging that they ran away from the House which was debating the key issue of irrigation.

The Congress and Telugu Desam Party members abstained from the House only to avoid seeing their misdeeds exposed, he said.

"The Congress plays cheap and narrow politics for mileage, and failed to develop the irrigation sector in Telangana willfully during its rule," he charged.

He also slammed the Congress leaders for criticizing the government instead of making constructive suggestions for the people's welfare.

Members of the BJP, the MIM, the Left parties and the YSRCP had attended the House for the presentation.