Of 101 major promises made, CM KCR had fulfilled just three and partially implemented 18, TPCC Vice-President Mohammed Ali Shabbir alleged.
Of 101 major promises made before and after coming to power, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has fulfilled just three and partially implemented 18, while as many as 80 other promises remain unimplemented during the TRS' nine-month regime or 276 days in power.
This was stated by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Vice-President Mohammed Ali Shabbir after unveiling a giant 10-feet "Promise Tracker" at Gandhi Bhavan on Wednesday.
"Since KCR is behaving like a monarch, we have designed the 'Promise tracker' in the style of a 'Shahi Farman'. At least its design and looks will prompt the Chief Minister to have a look at the promises that he made to the people," he said.
The giant 'Farman-e-Shahi' contains a list of 101 major promises KCR made to the people of Telangana. It has three adjacent columns - Implemented, Not Implemented and Partially Implemented.
"While the Congress has ticked in those columns, we are sending another sheet with blank columns to the Chief Minister so that he himself can tick against the promises and do a self-assessment of his performance," said Shabbir Ali, adding that the Congress had picked only 101 major promises.
"If we include all the promises in the list, then even 10 such sheets will not be sufficient," he said.
Shabbir Ali alleged that KCR had been taking advantage of the short public memory, and was on a spree of making new promises every day without giving any importance to their implementation.
He listed some of the promises which either remained unfulfilled or were partially implemented. For instance, of about 2,000 martyrs of Telangana, Rs 10 lakh compensation was paid to only 459 families, he said. None of them got the promised jobs or other benefits.
Similarly, the Congress leader said only 25% of the amount towards crop loan waiver was released, with no clarity on when the remaining 75% amount would be cleared.
The promised eight-hour power supply for farmers remained a non-reality. Instead, the erratic power supply and insensitive attitude of the government had driven hundreds of farmers to suicide.
The KG-to-PG free education promise, too, remained a non-starter. One full academic year had been lost, and another was about to begin, said the Congress MLC.
Likewise, Shabbir Ali said that the promise of 12% reservation for Muslims and STs in jobs and education remained unimplemented. Instead of constituting judicial commissions as a prelude to providing reservation, the state government had constituted only enquiry commissions, headed by retired IAS officers, which would have no legal sanctity. And the information that these commissions had been asked to collect already existed with the government as per the Intensive Household Survey held in August last year.
Further, the government did not spend even 25% of the allocated amount for the welfare of the SC, ST, BC and minorities communities.
The much publicised 2BHK apartments for the poor, three acres of land for dalits and tribals, one government job in every household, and several other promises remained unimplemented, he said.
Shabbir Ali ridiculed the promise made by KCR of rooting out political corruption. He said that Deputy CM Dr T Rajaiah had been sacked on the charges of alleged corruption. However, the Chief Minister did not disclose the real charges and the amount involved in the alleged irregularities committed by Rajaiah, if any. KCR also remained mute to the allegations of corruption leveled against other ministers like Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy.
The Congress leader said that people had voted in favour of the TRS and KCR based on the promises that he had made to them. Therefore, the common people had a right to know the status of the implementation of those promises.
He also gave blank sheets of the Promise Tracker to the media persons, and requested them to do their own analyses on the status of the implementation of the promises. (INN)