Hyderabad: A day after Telangana employees criticised Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for failing to fulfil the poll promises of implementing the latest PRC recommendations and issuing health cards, it was the turn of Mr Rao to hit back.
Employees received a jolt when Mr Rao refused an appointment to meet him to discuss the employee issues. Employee leaders waited at the Secretariat for over two hours and left empty handed.
The Chief Minister was supposed to meet them at the Secretariat after concluding Budget review meetings at the National Academy of Construction, Gach-ibowli. However, he did not turn up.
Mr Rao drove straight to his camp office at Begumpet. Employees tried to meet him there, but the security staff refused to allow them inside as there was no appointment. They told the employees that Mr Rao will come to the Secretariat in the evening, which did not happen either.
Employee leaders in large numbers came to the Secretariat to meet Mr Rao. Embarrassed with the CM not turning up, they immediately held a press conference stating that Mr Rao was busy and he had assured to convene a meeting with employees in a day or two when employee leaders V. Srinivas Goud and C. Vittal met him.
They said that Mr Rao has responded positively to their demands and promised to resolve all their issues at the earliest.
Sources said what upset Mr Rao was that the employee associations adopted a resolution demanding a Cabinet berth for Telangana employees leader and MLA V. Srinivas Goud to take care of issues concerning employees at the government level.
