Oppn blocking Bangaru Telangana: KCR

Hyderabad: TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao lambasted the opposition parties saying that they were proving to be stumbling blocks in the path of ‘Bangaru Telangana’. Delivering the presidential address at the plenary session attended by over 30,000 party activists, KCR took on the Congress and Telugu Desam parties, which ruled the State during the last five decades. He said neither of them strived for uplift of the poor or the deprived sections.

Now that the TRS was trying to set right the anomalies of the past, these parties are creating hurdles, he fumed.Rao was highly-critical of the two main opposition parties for their continuous outbursts against the ruling party on Aasara pensions, water grid and other schemes. These parties are pressing panic button fearing that their future is at stake. Implementation of the welfare schemes would render them jobless, Rao said.

Making a oblique reference to former Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, KCR said that a Congress Chief Minister tried to create apprehensions among people of Telangana that the State would plunge into darkness as a result of bifurcation. Rao cautioned his party cadre not to fall prey to the canards spread by the opposition parties against him and the government. These were attempts to weaken the ruling Telangana party, he said.

Recalling the steps taken by the government after coming to power in June last, KCR said the first success was to see that the ‘black days’ of Telangana due to power cuts were over. Now the State was headed for a ‘golden era’ with abundant power, the Chief Minister said.

Rao appealed to industrialists within and outside the country to invest in the new State as its power position reflected the way the Government was poised to function. He assured them of uninterrupted power supply in the State as the Government had tied up resources to the extent of Rs 91,500 crore to build up power capacity of 24,000 MW.

The installed capacity now was only 4,320 MW. In this context, the Chief Minister announced that the 6,600 MW ultra mega power project to come up at Damaracherla in Nalgonda District will be named after Laxminarasimha Swamy, the presiding deity of the hilltop shrine at Yadagirigutta in the same district. He also announced that the ambitious industrial policy of the Government titled ‘Telangana State Industrial Project Approval and Self Certification System' will be launched next month.

Rao promised that Godavari Pushkaralu would be held on a grandscale on the lines of Kumbh Mela. He said in the past discrimination was meted out to Telangana whenever Godavari or Krishna Pushkaralu were held in the undivided state though the river flows for longer distance in Telangana. Commenting on the much-touted industrial policy of the government, Rao informed that he would be launching Telangana State Industrial Project Approval and Self-Certification System (TS-IPASS) scheme in May.

He said the KG to PG scheme would be launched next year while the Government will fulfill its commitment of creating one lakh jobs after the division of staff between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana was completed. He also announced increase in the ceiling of loans borrowed by self-help groups from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.