Veteran Congress leader and MLC T Jeevan Reddy today lashed out at Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao, alleging that the latter had "misled" the people of the state with his "lies" regarding the job posts filled by the TRS government.
He made these remarks while responding to Rao's claims that the government had filled 1.32 lakh job vacancies between 2014 and 2020.
Countering the claims, Reddy said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had himself stated in an address in the Telangana Assembly, in 2014, that the state had a total of 1.1 lakh vacancies, and mockingly asked the minister how the TRS government had managed to fill about 30,000 non-existent openings.
He also said that though KTR had claimed that the state government had filled 80 posts in the horticulture department, the authorities concerned had removed 440 extension officers from the same department, and asked the minister why the government did nothing to stop the mass lay-off.
The MLC then asked the minister how the regularisation of contract employees in the electricity department would be carried out, and how the decision of the Singareni Collieries' management to recruit the dependents of ex-employees would be executed.
KTR has been drawing endless flak for his "lies" about the filling of job posts under the TRS regime ever since he claimed that the government had given
jobs to 1.32 lakh people in the last six years. The Congress has been especially harsh in rebuking the leader since he had also ridiculed the party for generating just 24,000 jobs between 2004 and 2014, when it was in power in undivided Andhra Pradesh.