KCR To Start Districts' Tour From December 19

To mount pressure on the BJP government at the Centre on the state's issues including the proposed privatization of the Singareni coal mines, paddy procurement and others, TRS boss and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has decided to address a TRS executive joint meeting of the party's MPs, MLAs and other, district-level, leaders.

The meeting slated to be held at the party headquarters Telangana Bhavan on December 17 at 2 pm will be chaired by the Chief Minister.

Rao is also planning to tour the districts after that to talk up and push the welfare schemes and development programs of his government.

The aim of the programs being planned by the Chief Minister is to take on the Centre for its "anti-people and anti-farmer" policies. For the unversed, the Chief Minister has been attacking the BJP regularly after the TRS lost the Huzurabad by-election, and he had recently hit out at the Centre for its proposal to sell out or privatize four of the Singareni mines, claiming it was against the state's and the workers' interests.

According to reports, the CM will first chair a joint session of the TRS MPs, MLAs, MLCs and ZP chairpersons on December 17. It will also be attended by DCMS presidents, DCCB presidents, Rythu Bandhu District Committees presidents and state-level corporation chairpersons. In the meeting, the CM is expected to prepare them to counter the opposition parties for their continuous charges against the government and its programs, and fight over the paddy procurement and other issues of the state, and popularize the TRS government's welfare schemes and development programs in a big way.

The CM will next address a Collectors' conference on December 18 on Dalit Bandhu, Pattana Pragathi, Palle Pragathi, Haritha Haram and other development and welfare schemes. The meeting at Pragathi Bhavan will also be attended by ministers, the Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and senior officials.

KCR will then take up district tours from December 19 to inaugurate Collector offices and Rythu Bandhu offices, and participate in development programs.