KCR Slams Telangana Congress On New Districts

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today slammed Congress leaders for their remarks on the district reorganization process and accused them of misleading the people on the issue.

During his brief stay at Party MP Lakshmikantha Rao's house in Warangal, KCR told the media that the government had taken suggestions and complaints from the people as well as political leaders on which new districts, revenue divisions and mandals were to be formed, for over a year, but the Opposition was hell bent on deceiving people on issue, he alleged, accusing the Congress of duplicity.

Since it was weary of its political future in Telangana, the Opposition would go to any length to win back people's support, even if it meant raising a series of new objections to the formation of the districts that they never had a problem with in the past, or misleading people over the benefits of creating (or not creating) certain districts, the CM claimed.

KCR also alleged that the main agenda of the Congress was to create a vote bank, and for that it would gladly hinder every scheme the government takes up.

Referring to TPCC President N Uttam Kumar Reddy's recent backlash over the Mid-Manair dam breach and farmer issues, the TRS supremo said that Reddy was ignorant of facts.

"If Uttam Kumar Reddy is willing to offer constructive criticism on any issue, we are ready to receive them with good intention. But the TPCC chief is in the pursuit of bringing out the 'problems of the farmers', without even specifying the problem, and why he thinks the government is not solving those 'problems' now," he quipped.

Concluding the talk, he said that the new districts would benefit people as they would expedite welfare schemes and get more funds for development projects.