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KCR rules out early polls
Rebutting the Congress for spreading false notions amongst people, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao ruled out the possibility of early elections to Assembly. While answering to the discussion on motion of thanks to Governor’s address in the Legislative Council on Wednesday, KCR said being main opposition party, the Congress has greater responsibility and should not resort to statements which may
​Hyderabad: Rebutting the Congress for spreading false notions amongst people, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao ruled out the possibility of early elections to Assembly. While answering to the discussion on motion of thanks to Governor’s address in the Legislative Council on Wednesday, KCR said being main opposition party, the Congress has greater responsibility and should not resort to statements which may send a wrong message to the people.
The Chief Minister asked the Congress to restrain from spreading negativism and start thinking positively over the development of Telangana. “There are no such plans and Congress should stop dreaming about early elections. We will go to polls as per schedule and people will judge when the time comes,” he said.
Referring to the allegations of huge public debt, the Chief Minister likened the State with the USA. “It is the biggest global debtor which continues to remain superpower.”
Describing this as the wisdom of economy, the Chief Minister said that a miser would remain under-developed. “It’s part of the broad fiscal policy of the Government of India to take loans for development. This remains a dynamic idea and as we shall be paying back Rs 20,000 crore by the end of the financial year,” he noted.
KCR alleged that the Congress party was against development, as it knocked on the doors of Court for various projects and caused hindrance to ongoing projects. He said nothing can stop the government from going ahead with irrigation projects.
Expressing satisfaction that the Telangana had now got rid of political corruption, KCR said that none can prove that the TRS government was indulging in corrupt practices. He pointed out that the beneficiaries for the government schemes were identified by the officials, unlike by MLAs during the earlier Congress regime.
On regularisation of contract employees, the Chief Minister asked the Congress to withdraw the cases filed in the High Court, so that the eligible candidates could get regular employment. He announced that thousands of NMRs and also Home Guards will be regularised in the coming days. KCR said that the government was gearing up to supply a total of 10,000 MWs of power in the coming days.
The government in the newly-formed State was able to increase its capacity from 9000 MW to 9300 MW. “It’s not the question of how much power has been supplied, but it’s a question of quality power provided during the last two-and-a-half years to all sections of the State,” he said.
To monitor power supply in different parts of the State and to reduce variation between demand and supply, the government has decided to come up with an App, he added.
He also took exception to messages widely spread through social media platforms that the government was gearing up for 4 hours of power cut during this summer.
He clarified that there would be no power cut even for 4 minutes. While emphasising the brand value of Telangana, he said that the Rs 12,000-crore debt related to power was brought under the Central government’s scheme of UDAY (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana) and was converted into bonds for relieving the State from the burden.
