CPI flays TS, AP govts for failing to resolve sanitation workers’ strike

While KCR is acting like a dictator, Naidu is following in the footsteps of his counterpart

Hyderabad: CPI National Secretary K Narayana on Sunday accused Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of acting like a dictator in such a way as Nizam ruled the State. Speaking to media persons at Makdhoom Bhavan in Hyderabad, Narayana said the way KCR had been dealing with the strike by Municipal sanitation workers clearly showed his monarchical style of his functioning.

The situation in Andhra Pradesh too was not different, said Narayana. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, he said, was also following in the footsteps of KCR in dealing with the sanitation workers strike. "Both the Chief Ministers are competing with each in conducting Pushkaralu by spending a whopping amount of Rs 2,300 crore, but failed to resolve the strike by sanitation workers," he said.

He further said that nothing had changed for better in both the states after bifurcation and the government had failed to keep their promise of creating employment to the youth. The two governments were encouraging big businesses and defections, he said.

He threatened that the CPI would intensify agitation in both the states. Meanwhile, CPI Telangana unit State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy said that he along with the 10 left parties would participate in “'Bus Barosa Yatra” from Sunday.