Hyderabad: Former minister and deputy floor leader T. Harish Rao said 50 minority students from Zaheerabad became doctors due to former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) welfare initiatives.
Speaking at a municipal poll campaign in Kohir, Zaheerabad constituency, Harish Rao slammed the Congress for ignoring minority development. He said residential schools established under KCR’s tenure provided quality education, enabling 50 students from the area to secure MBBS seats.
He declared that such success stories were not coincidences but the result of targeted welfare policies. “KCR provided monthly honorariums to imams and mouzams, showing consistent support for minority communities,” Rao said.
Welfare schemes halted after Congress took office, says Harish Rao
Harish Rao criticised the Revanth Reddy-led government for halting welfare programmes, including the Ramzan gift scheme for poor Muslim families. “Revanth stopped what KCR started,” he said, adding that under Congress, pension arrears reached ₹52,000 for each elderly beneficiary in two and a half years.
He accused Congress of using threats, such as withholding utility permissions, to coerce votes. “Funds to municipalities come directly from the Finance Commission, not from Revanth’s personal purse,” he said. Harish Rao pledged to personally sit in Kohir to resolve local issues if BRS wins.
He also alleged that farmers now receive only 12 hours of power supply, unlike the 24 hours under KCR. “Congress has stopped every scheme – KCR kits, Dalit Bandhu, BC Bandhu, sheep distribution,” Harish Rao added.
He urged voters to elect candidates with the car symbol and predicted KCR’s return to power, promising to resume Kohir’s development.