KCR To Address Meeting In Huzurabad On August 16

Telangana BC Welfare Minister Gangula Kamalakar today said that about 1 lakh people would be attending Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's upcoming public meeting in poll-bound Huzurabad on August 16.

The minister also said that the CM would formally launch the Dalit Bandhu scheme at the Huzurabad meeting.

He added, "We are making all the arrangements to ensure the smooth conduct of the program. The police are making the necessary security arrangements as well."

Responding to the detractors of the scheme, Kamalakar asserted, "The Dalit Bandhu scheme is the brainchild of the CM. He has devised it to empower the SCs in the state. Under this, aid of Rs 10 lakh will be given to each eligible Dalit household. However, many, like BJP leader and former minister Etala Rajender, have been voicing their apprehensions about both the scheme and the TRS leadership. I would like to clearly state that the charges made by them are baseless, aimed at belittling our government. They should realise though that everyone knows that no other states have launched such comprehensive welfare programs. Though the BJP has been spreading lies about us, our party will still win the upcoming by-elections in Huzurabad and all other future elections as well. Even the people of Huzurabad know that the constituency was not developed by the BJP candidate, Etala Rajender, and they will not vote for him."

In party meeting at Warangal, another TRS leader, MLA Balka Suman, also flayed Rajender for failing to develop Huzurabad, and accused the latter of having "deceived the public" by joining an "anti-Dalit" party, the BJP.

Many see the TRS supremo's increasing involvement in by-election campaigns as a sign of the ruling party's jitteriness about the BJP's growing popularity in the state.