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Telangana: Opposition voice was suppressed in the assembly, says Congress leader Bhatti Vikramarka | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Congress has accused the ruling TRS of not only ending up attaining a dubious record of holding the budget session for just seven days due to which a meaningful discussion was not possible but also suppressing the voice of the opposition from exposing the government failures.
Addressing a media conference on Tuesday, Congress legislature party leader Bhatti Vikramarka along with MLAs D Sridhar Babu and T Jagga Reddy said despite the ruling TRS obstructing their speeches with running commentary in the Assembly, the Congress was successful in its two year long fight to finally make the TRS government to take back the field assistants into their jobs, implement pay scale for SERP and MEPMA workers and positively consider extending job security to the VRAs.
“This is the lowest number of days of a budget session held in the state. The government did not respond to crucial issues raised by the Congress such as not to increase electricity tariff, that the government should procure paddy produced in the Yasangi season and start giving the monthly unemployment allowance to the jobless youth,” said Sridhar Babu.
Earlier, Bhatti while speaking on the appropriation bill in the Assembly accused the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre of discriminating against Telangana in sanction of projects and releasing funds. “Telangana is one of the leading contributors to India’s GDP but the Central government is not allocating projects and funds to the state and instead creating hurdles in development works taken up in the state,” he said.
Bhatti said the Centre sanctioned 171 medical colleges to various states and gave rupees 200 crore grant for each college but did not give it to Telangana. Also, not a single Navodaya school was sanctioned by the state. He termed the Central government’s move to take control over the irrigation projects in the state as a dangerous trend. “It’s disturbing since one of the key issues for the statehood movement was water,” he said.
The previous Congress governments had established several Public Sector Units (PSUs) to ensure that the country’s wealth was distributed among the people but the Modi government is on a privatisation spree handing over these PSUs to the corporates, he alleged.
Addressing a media conference on Tuesday, Congress legislature party leader Bhatti Vikramarka along with MLAs D Sridhar Babu and T Jagga Reddy said despite the ruling TRS obstructing their speeches with running commentary in the Assembly, the Congress was successful in its two year long fight to finally make the TRS government to take back the field assistants into their jobs, implement pay scale for SERP and MEPMA workers and positively consider extending job security to the VRAs.
“This is the lowest number of days of a budget session held in the state. The government did not respond to crucial issues raised by the Congress such as not to increase electricity tariff, that the government should procure paddy produced in the Yasangi season and start giving the monthly unemployment allowance to the jobless youth,” said Sridhar Babu.
Earlier, Bhatti while speaking on the appropriation bill in the Assembly accused the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre of discriminating against Telangana in sanction of projects and releasing funds. “Telangana is one of the leading contributors to India’s GDP but the Central government is not allocating projects and funds to the state and instead creating hurdles in development works taken up in the state,” he said.
Bhatti said the Centre sanctioned 171 medical colleges to various states and gave rupees 200 crore grant for each college but did not give it to Telangana. Also, not a single Navodaya school was sanctioned by the state. He termed the Central government’s move to take control over the irrigation projects in the state as a dangerous trend. “It’s disturbing since one of the key issues for the statehood movement was water,” he said.
The previous Congress governments had established several Public Sector Units (PSUs) to ensure that the country’s wealth was distributed among the people but the Modi government is on a privatisation spree handing over these PSUs to the corporates, he alleged.
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