KTR goes into raptures over dad, sis

Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K T Rama Rao said his father K Chandrasekhar Rao was a Chief Minister with large heart and was implementing various welfare schemes by spending a lot of funds and making Telangana an ideal State in the country.

Participating in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (TRS) Janahitha programme in Armoor town in Nizamabad district, along with Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, local MP Kavitha, Advisor to the Government D Srinivas, Bibi Patil, MLA Jeevan Reddy and others, Rama Rao said that the KCR government disproved former Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s remarks that Telangana Statehood would create power problem and would have to face Maoist menace.

Rama Rao also accused the previous Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) governments of totally ignoring the plight of the poor, deprived classes, agricultural and irrigation sectors. The Congress ruled for 55 years and did not bother about the welfare of the poor and the TDP remained extinct in Telangana as the people stood solidly behind the TRS for his unprecedented welfare and developmental programmes, he said.

Announcing Rs 1,000 crore for development of Nizamabad district, which is ideal in agriculture as well as for its role in the statehood movement, Rama Rao said they successfully overcame power crisis and were giving nine-hour power to agriculture and offering fine rice to hostels, which was not in TRS manifesto.

The KCR government, just in 33 months, had come up with various welfares schemes and Rs 1,000 being offered towards pension to wipe tears of the poor by spending Rs 5,300 crore to extend pensions to 40 lakh people, the Minister said.
Chief Ministers of other States had been asking their officials to study and replicate the welfare schemes of the Telangana
government.

The State government had come up with ‘Amma Vodi’ scheme and was offering money to women for child delivery in hospitals besides offering KCR kit with 13 items for mother and child, he added. Praising Nizamabad MP Kavitha for her oratorical skills in Parliament, Rama Rao said both of them got talking skills from people through statehood movement and not by his father as it was stated by one of the Union ministers.

“We have kept the crop loan waiver promise, which is being replicated in Uttar Pradesh as Chief Minister Adithyanath Yogi was waiving off Rs 36,000 crore farm loans besides introducing anti-Romeo squads on the lines of Telangana’s ‘SHE Teams’, he pointed out.

Speaking on the occasion, Kavitha said Rama Rao was a brother not only to her, but also to all women in the State. She requested the Municipal Administration Minister to sanction Rs 350 crore for development of all municipalities. Though several parties sprouted in recent times, only the TRS got people’s support solidly and attributed it to growing membership.