Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu on Monday said the people of Telangana would support and bless the Congress in the upcoming local body elections. He addressed reporters at his Madhira camp office.
He said the Congress government had been repairing the economic and administrative systems damaged by BRS over the past decade. Moreover, he noted that welfare and development programmes for farmers, women, and youth had already reached households across the state.
Congress cites BC quota and attacks BRS
Vikramarka said Congress granted 42 percent reservation to BCs after conducting a socio-economic and educational survey through the Planning Department. He credited Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, and the “Indiramma government” for fulfilling this long-standing demand.
He further alleged that BRS leaders were trying to discredit Congress by filing petitions in courts. In addition, he criticised the previous government for failing to deliver one job per household and three acres of land for Dalits. The farm loan waiver, he said, remained incomplete even after ten years. Furthermore, he accused BRS of spending ₹1 lakh crore on the Kaleshwaram project, which later collapsed.
Welfare schemes and housing projects detailed
The deputy chief minister said Congress had already announced 60,000 jobs in addition to Group I and Group II recruitments. He explained that the government released ₹21,000 crore for farm loan waivers and another ₹9,000 crore for Rythu Bharosa in just nine days. Farmers, he pointed out, also received free power for 2.9 million pump sets and households benefited from 200 units of free electricity. Fine rice growers gained a ₹500 per quintal bonus.
He said the Indiramma Housing scheme offered ₹5 lakh for each house. In the first phase, 450,000 houses were under construction at a cost of ₹22,500 crore. Out of 10.5 million families in Telangana, 9.6 million now receive six kilograms of free fine rice per person every month. In the open market, this rice sells at ₹56 per kilogram.
He added that women were travelling free in RTC buses across the state. Meanwhile, self-help groups were receiving interest-free loans of ₹20,000 crore every year. According to him, one crore women would become lakhpathis within five years.