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BJP MLAs knock on the doors of Governor
The legislators of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called on Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday, urging him to direct the State Government to involve city MLAs in Swachh Hyderabad campaign. The BJP delegation comprised of State Unit president G Kishan Reddy, floor leader Dr K Lakshman, MLAs Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, NVSS Prabhakar and Raja Singh and MLC N Ramchander Rao.
Swachh Hyderabad has become a TRS affair
Hyderabad: The legislators of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called on Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday, urging him to direct the State Government to involve city MLAs in Swachh Hyderabad campaign. The BJP delegation comprised of State Unit president G Kishan Reddy, floor leader Dr K Lakshman, MLAs Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, NVSS Prabhakar and Raja Singh and MLC N Ramchander Rao.
The BJP legislators complained that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was not involving the elected representatives in his decisions. "It appears that the CM is banking mostly on the advice of the bureaucrats, be it cleaning of Hussain Sagar, digging a huge tank in the place of Indira Park, building auditorium, food courts, restaurants at NTR Stadium, building of skyscrapers around Necklace Road, shifting of Secretariat from the present area to T.B. Hospital and from there to Gymkhana Grounds.
In any of these proposals, the CM has never consulted the local MLAs nor the MPs," they said. Citing an instance, the BJP leaders said that the proposals relating to Indira Park and NTR Stadium fall under the Constituency of Musheerabad, which is represented by Dr Laxman. People are agitating against these proposals for Indira Park and NTR Stadium which provides much needed space in otherwise concrete jungle in Hyderabad. Dr Laxman was never been consulted on these decisions, they said.
Though the CM promised that he would specially convene a meeting of the Hyderabad MLAs to discuss issues threadbare and find solutions. Almost one year after, no such meeting had taken place. On the other hand, the CM has been announcing certain schemes and policy initiatives without even consulting or involving Hyderabad MLAs.
Recently, the Chief Minister had announced Swachh Hyderabad, apparently as part of Swachh Bharat Mission, to work towards making Hyderabad clean and green. BJP has no qualms with the proposal, in fact, we welcome it. However, what is unfortunate in this is non-inclusion of City MLAs," Kishan Reddy said.
The BJP leaders alleged that the State Government is apparently involving ruling party MLAs and MLCs, who are from Telangana districts. The GHMC is spending about Rs. 200 crore for this purpose. Officials and Ministers have been holding review meetings apparently for the implementation of Swachh Hyderabad programme. "We have a feeling that the Chief Minister is deliberately excluding the city MLAs because most of the MLAs of City are from non-TRS parties.
With an eye on GHMC elections, the Chief Minister wants to ensure the visibility of TRS MLAs. This is nothing but a mockery of democracy. What Chief Minister has been doing is breach of the privileges of the Members and an attempt to bypass democratically elected representatives of the people," they alleged.
