KCR Slams Opposition For "Creating Hurdles"

Lashing out at the Opposition parties for criticizing the government's schemes and encouraging the municipal sanitation workers' strike, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today said that the arrest of the Opposition leaders for protesting at the doorsteps of C Block on Friday was legitimate.

"What the police will do if these leaders storm the Secretariat and block the doors and try to barge into the CM's office without a purpose?" he demanded to know.

At a public meeting at Hasnabad in the Karimnagar district after participating in developmental programs, the Chief Minister said that the Opposition leaders, who had provoked the sanitation workers to continue the ongoing strike, had not come to Secretariat for a solution.

He made it clear that no State government in the country gave salaries to these workers, and it is for the Gram Panchayats and municipalities to look into the issue.

He alleged that it was the handiwork of the Left parties and others which had resulted in the removal of 1,000 workers of the GHMC.

"Let the workers resume duties and I will sort out the issue," he said.

KCR accused the previous governments, which ruled for 60 years, of depriving the Telangana region of irrigation waters and destroying it in many sectors. The Congress had ruled for 45 years and the Telugu Desam Party for 15 years, and in those periods they had deliberately destroyed Telangana in all fronts and looted the peoples' money, he charged.

KCR slammed the Opposition for trying to create hurdles for the TRS government which was committed to developing the state now and completing all the projects.

"We will complete the Gandi and Gourelli projects in two years in Karimnagar and release waters to 1.50 lakh acres. To implement the Grama Jyothi scheme, the government will give funds to all Assembly segments irrespective of their respective MLAs' party affiliations. We will rebuild the villages, and get clean environment and abundant facilities through this new scheme," KCR vowed.

"We will also not ask for votes if our government fails to supply pure drinking water to the households under the water grid program," he said, adding that it was only he and no one else at the national level that had made such a statement with guts.

KCR also said that he would supply uninterrupted power to the domestic, agricultural, industrial and other sectors.