Politician Y S Sharmila today slammed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao alleging that he had cheated the Dalits of the state by failing to keep his word of making a Dalit leader the first CM of the state after its formation in 2014.
Speaking to a gathering at her Lotus Pond residence on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti after paying floral tributes to the leader, she said that the TRS regime was so closed off to Dalit development that no leader from the community could even approach it with the proposal to make a Dalit the next CM.
Sharmila also questioned the CM about another promise he had made to the community.
"What happened to the CM's promise of providing three acres of agricultural land to every eligible Dalit family in Telangana? What has he ever done for the Dalits in the state? He has not even bothered to honour a major leader of the community, the great Babasaheb Ambedkar, on his 130th birth anniversary. How is it that Covid-19 prevention and safety guidelines pose a hindrance to holding celebrations for Ambedkar Jayanti but not to holding a massive public meeting in Halia? Though my father had named the Chevella-Pranahita irrigation project after the leader, KCR was not even able to rename the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project after the architect of our Constitution," she charged.
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