Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will visit Huzurabad tomorrow to address a much publicised public meeting in the constituency.
While there, he will formally launch the state government's new Dalit Bandhu program, aimed at the empowerment of the SC community. The scheme will be implemented on a pilot basis. Aid of Rs 10 lakh will be given to 15 SC beneficiaries in the poll-bound constituency.
Local officials have been busy making arrangements for the program and various high-profile leaders, including Finance Minister T Harish Rao, BC Welfare Minister Gangula Kamalakar, and SC Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar, have inspected the preparations for the same.
Pointing to the timing and location of the launch of the scheme, the leaders of the Opposition have been voicing their objections against the TRS government's alleged attempts to use a welfare scheme to pocket votes in the upcoming Huzurabad by-election.
(It must be noted that the TRS government has already released Rs 500 crore for the development of Huzurabad.)
Despite the criticism it has been attracting, however, the government is determined to launch the program.
In fact, it has already been implemented at Vasalamarri village in Yadadri Bhuvangiri district where the CM has extended aid of Rs 10 lakh each
to 76 SC families.