KCR turned arrogant after 2018 elections: Etala

WARANGAL: After being voted to power for the second time, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has become arrogant and has started behaving like an emperor. As Chief Minister, he resorted to harassment and amassing wealth without focusing on people's issues, alleged Huzurabad MLA Etala Rajendar.

Accompanied by Errabelli Pradeep Rao, the BJP leader offered prayers at Mashooq Rabbani Ursu dargah and later inaugurated the party office in Warangal East constituency as a 'palak' (in-charge) here on Friday.

Warangal is the heart of Telangana state. Rao had assured to develop it on par with Hyderabad but nothing has changed since the creation of the state, he said. Thousands of people live in temporary shelters on the roadside and at drainage canals. The state government has failed to honour its promise of distribution of double bedroom houses to all those eligible for the scheme.

Several presumed that their children would get jobs after the formation of Telangana state, but their dreams lay shattered because of the anti-people policies of the government. Several unemployed youth are in depression unable to feed their parents while some have died by suicide.

He said that Rao had promised to give unemployment sops of Rs 3,116 but on coming to power he betrayed the people and unemployed youth. Before going to polls in 2018, the government deposited some amount for women help groups under interest free loans but after that it did not deposit even a rupee, he pointed out.

“For someone claiming that Telangana was the number one state, I want to ask him if the state in number one in robbing people of their earnings. By giving permissions to liquor shops, besides schools, temples and highways and for belt shops, the Telangana government is looting the people and is forcing them to become addicts,” he said.

The state government is distributing Rs 22,000 crore for pensions, Kalyana Lakshmi and Rythu Bandhu schemes but is collecting Rs 45,000 crore in the name of liquor shops from the people.

Warangal and Karimnagar are the two districts that played a key role in the movement. The locals must exhibit the spirit to give a chance to a BJP-ruled Telangana, he said.

BJP Warangal district unit president K. Sridhar, N. Rajaiah Yadav, Sammi Reddy, Ashok Reddy, Achha Vidhya Sagar, Kusuma Satish, Ramana, Mohan Achari and Yoganand were present along with others.