Congress Demands Job Notifications, Unemployment Allowance

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President & MP A Revanth Reddy on Sunday demanded that the state government immediately issue the notification to fill the 1.91 lakh plus vacancies in its various departments.

He also demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao immediately fulfill his electoral promise of a Rs. 3,016 monthly allowance to all the jobless youth in the state.

Reddy strongly condemned the alleged attack yesterday by TRS leaders on Youth Congress workers when they had tried to submit memoranda to various MLAs on the unemployment issue.

He said that the TRS' Ranga Reddy district president Ravikanth Goud attacked the Youth Congress workers who went to submit a petition to the local MLA Manchireddy Kishan Reddy.

Similarly, the local police personnel in Jadcherla had broken the leg of a Youth Congress leader Srinivas Naik when an attempt was made to submit a memorandum on the unemployment issue, Reddy claimed.

Instead of maintaining the law and order, some pro-TRS police officials were taking the law into their own hands by carrying out such physical attacks on Congress workers, he alleged.

He added that many Youth Congress workers were also illegally arrested and implicated in false cases for raising their voices against the rising unemployment.

He said that the ruling TRS leaders were getting angry when the Congress activists exposed the fact that the promised job notifications had not been issued for the last seven years, and that the promise of an unemployment allowance of Rs. 3,016 remained unfulfilled.

Reddy however said that the Congress would intensify its agitation against the "dictatorial regime" of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. The Congress workers were not afraid of the violent tactics being used by the ruling TRS to suppress the unemployment issue, he claimed.

The TPCC chief also demanded the withdrawal of the "fake" cases registered against the Youth Congress workers, and their immediate release.