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Uttam predicts Cong win, recalls student sacrifices
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Telangana State became a reality due to the struggle and sacrifices of students and youth. Addressing hundreds of artists, students and youth who joined the Congress on Wednesday in the presence of AICC Telangana in-charge secretary R C Khuntia and AICC SC Cell chairman Koppula Raju, Uttam Kumar Reddy said lakhs of
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Telangana State became a reality due to the struggle and sacrifices of students and youth. Addressing hundreds of artists, students and youth who joined the Congress on Wednesday in the presence of AICC Telangana in-charge secretary R C Khuntia and AICC SC Cell chairman Koppula Raju, Uttam Kumar Reddy said lakhs of students had sacrificed their careers for the cause of statehood.
He said when the then united Andhra Pradesh government wanted to take up recruitment drives, students' JAC rejected it and insisted only on separate Telangana. He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi granted statehood to Telangana only due to the movement carried out by students and youth. He said youth expected jobs and better opportunities in the new State. However, he said, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had shattered all those dreams.
Uttam Kumar Reddy said only KCR family extracted benefits out of Telangana State and deprived students and youth of all opportunities. By causing delay in clearing fee reimbursement dues and giving scholarships, it caused huge mental agony for lakhs of students and their families. He said the TRS government did not even fill over one lakh vacancies that existed at the time of formation of Telangana and therefore, there was no question of creating new jobs, both in public and private sector. He said the Chief Minister also suppressed all kinds of agitation by students and youth.
Welcoming the students, youth and artists into the Congress, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Congress was all set to come to power in 2019 elections. Besides creating lakhs of jobs, the next Congress government would give a monthly allowance of Rs 3,000 to all jobless youth. He also welcomed hundreds of artists to the Congress and appealed them to use their skills in exposing the failures of the TRS government.
Thousands of students led by their leaders including Ellanna, Balakrishna and Durgam Bhaskar joined the Congress and expressed their resolve to bring the party to power in next elections.
