TRS claiming credit for works done by Congress: Ponnam Prabhakar

​Hanamkonda: The TRS leaders were claiming credit for the works done by Congress legislators in the past, alleged former Congress MP of Karimnagar Ponnam Prabhakar.

This, he said with reference to TRS’s Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar’s statements claiming credit for the proposed LPG bottling plant in Kamalapur mandal, which was formerly in Karimnagar district, now appended to Warangal Urban district.

Speaking to press persons in Hanamkonda on Monday, Prabhakar has claimed that he had initiated the process way back in 2012 seeking the Union government to set up LPG bottling plant in Kamalapur mandal.

Following which, the then Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily has taken up the matter with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL). The company during 2014 consented to set up the plant on about 55 acres of land.

“But MP Vinod Kumar was drawing mileage out of my efforts. There was no role played by him in connection with setting up the bottling plant in Kamalapur. I demand Vinod Kumar to come for an open debate in this regard as well as on development of Karimnagar parliament constituency,” the ex-MP challenged.

He accused Vinod of doing nothing for the development of the constituency. ‘Because of my efforts Congress-led UPA government sanctioned train from Karimnagar to Tirupati, Passport Centre, Nursing College and Kendriya Vidyalaya, besides many tourism projects.’

Prabhakar asserted that he would quit politics if he was proven wrong while adding that it has become a practice for the TRS leadership to claim credit for developmental works initiated by previous Congress government and its leaders.

The TRS leaders knew nothing about development except praising the CM. The State government has failed to fulfill its election promises even after completing about three years of its term in power, he noted.

Later on the day, Prabhakar has visited stockrooms of Handloom Cooperative Societies at Kothawada in Warangal. He expressed serious concern over a large number of ‘durries’ getting rotted due to lack of sales.

During Congress regime, steps were taken to supply the durries to SC/ST/BC and minority hostels along with defence personnel. Due to non-allocation of budget to handloom industry the condition of weavers was thrown into doldrums, he complained.