Congress steals Telangana Rashtra Samithi guru ahead of polls
Congress proposes 100 crore trust for Telangana martyrs as Jayashankar trust
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-04-13 05:02 GMT
Hyderabad: In a deft move, the Telangana Congress has ‘hijacked’ TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s guru and Telangana ideologue late Professor Jayashankar. The party on Saturday named a proposed Rs 100 crore trust for Telangana martyrs after Jayashankar in its election manifesto.
Union minister Jairam Ramesh and AICC secretary Ramachandra Kuntia released the manifesto at Gandhi Bhavan in the presence of TPCC president Ponnala Laxmaiah, manifesto committee chairman D. Sridhar Babu and co chairman Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. The party promised to develop a five acre Amaraveerula Park in Hyderabad in memory of the sacrifices made by the people of Telangana in 1969 and in recent years, It also promised to give pensions to the kin of Telangana martyrs, and a job to a family member and ex gratia to each family. For this, the party promised to set up the rs 100 crore Jayashankar Trust.
Mr Ramesh commented that the TRS manifesto looks like “diwala” and Congress manifesto like “Diwali”. Among its promises, the manifesto says it will pay Telangana staff the entire salary for the Sakala Janula Samme strike period. The party promised to recruit one lakh unemployed youth within a year and fill backlog vacancies in two years. Another one lakh unemployed youth would get jobs in each district in public or private sector or by promoting self employment over the next five years.
The Telengana Congress said it would safeguard the image of Hyderabad as a world class city and develop other cities in Telangana as smart and safe cities.