Opposition Stalling Growth: KTR To Palair Voters

Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao, who is on a campaigning spree for the Palair Assembly constituency by-poll, on Thursday asked the voters of the constituency to choose the TRS candidate as the Party was committed to the development of the State and the Opposition was only causing hurdles.

In an address to the people of the segment going to the polls on May 16, the minister launched a broadside at the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party, accusing them of hatching conspiracies against the irrigation projects and development programs in the State.

The two Parties were obstructing the government in irrigation projects, including the Sitarama and Bhakta Ramadas projects aimed at giving drinking waters and irrigating parched lands in the constituency, he charged.

KTR further lamented that while TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was making every effort to scuttle Telangana's projects, the Party's Telangana leaders were acting as his slaves by supporting him rather than standing up for the State.

And Congress MP Gutha Sukhender Reddy was indulging in dirty politics by writing to the Centre against funding for Mission Bhagiratha, he alleged. Gutha was resorting to this despite an area in his own Nalgonda district having about 2 lakh fluoride-hit people with twisted limbs, KTR said.

Despite facing debacles in all the elections held so far since the formation of Telangana thanks to their anti-Telangana ways, the Congress and the TDP had failed to learn any lessons, and by even joining hands now for the by-election, these traditional arch-rivals had also made a mockery of values in politics, the minister charged. The Parties should mend their ways by eschewing unethical politics lest the people teach them even harsher lessons, he said.

He called upon the voters of the Palair constituency to vote for the TRS candidate Thummala Nageswara Rao. The TRS government was working hard on irrigation, and had taken up the redesigning of the projects to increase the ayacut area and bring under cultivation the crops to the maximum possible extent, he claimed. The flagship schemes like Mission Kakatiya for lake revival and Mission Bhagiratha for drinking water supply would also be completed on time despite the hurdles being created by the Opposition parties, if the TRS was given a sweeping mandate showing the Opposition that the people of Telangana continued to be firmly behind it, he said.