Sangareddy: The impressive rally by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Sangareddy on Thursday has turned out to be a morale-booster for Telangana Congress, which took a serious beating at the hands of ruling TRS over the past three years due to successive electoral defeats and defection of party MLAs and an MP to the TRS.
Milling crowd, human waves, people along the roads, balconies and rooftops waving Congress flags and chanting Sonia and Rahul’s names were seen in Sangareddy till the meeting ended.
The Congress has put up a show of unity in the meeting. As many as 160 leaders, starting from senior leaders to youth leaders, were given a place on the dais along with Mr Gandhi.
Mr Gandhi said, “The dais shows Congress is not a family party like TRS. We give respect and recognition for all leaders. We are a democratic party. I urge all leaders on the dais and lakhs of activists in the audience to reach out to every household, get closer to them, listen to their problems, tell them how Congress will resolve all their problems if voted to power in 2019. I see a huge force and energy of the party at this place. Utilise this force and energy for the development of Telangana. Only Congress can fulfil the dreams of Telangana people.”
He said Telangana is a land where people face reality and question the mighty. He said Telangana is a land of Makhdoom Mohiuddin who gave famous couplet “Hayat Leke Chalo, Kainat Leke Chalo; Chalo To Zamanay Ko Saath Leke Chalo” (Take along life, take along the world, and when you march, take along the people).
Mr Gandhi asked whether the CM was taking people along. “Is he taking farmers, students, youth, women and backward people or is he taking along only contractors and land mafia,” he said, adding that only one family has been exercising all rights of all elected representatives.
The Congress Chargesheet
- No self-rule, growth and development after formation of the new state; KCR’s autocratic and arrogant government is ruling the state on the principles of cheating, deceit and exploitation.
- Large-scale corruption, defections of elected representatives of Opposition parties
- Over 36 lakh farmers in Telangana subjected to mental torture and humiliation in the name of crop loan waiver scheme. TRS did not waive the loans in one go, keeping farmers hooked to their debts for almost three years. Even today, farmers are not completely debt-free.
- Telangana is No. 2 in the country in farmer suicides. The rate of suicide has increased almost three times since TRS came to power. KCR never paid a visit to any of the suicide victim’s family.
- TRS Government committed the grave offence of implicating the farmers in false cases. Chilli, turmeric, tur dal, rice and soya farmers did not get the remunerative prices. Farmers were booked in false cases for staging protests and they were brought in handcuffs to court, and treated like hardcore criminals.
- TRS government failed to provide one job to every household.
- TRS government failed to implement its promise of providing one high school in every mandal, one government engineering college in each district, one polytechnic college in every Assembly constituency, women. While health, mining, cultural and tribal universities were not started yet, government closed 270 engineering colleges.
- Fee reimbursement to students not being paid regularly.
- KG-to-PG education not implemented.
- Government failed to implement NIMS-level super specialty hospital in each district.
- Arogyasri schemes given a goby.
- Several reputed government hospitals in the city neglected
- KCR failed to implement the promise of making Dalit as first CM of Telangana.
- Dalits not given three acres of land each as promised
- SC, ST Sub-Plans not implemented
- Telangana martyrs’ families completely ignored; very few given financial assistance.
- KCR failed to implement 2BHK houses for all eligible, only 1,500 constructed so far.
- 12 per cent reservations to each for Muslims and tribals not implemented so far.
- Political corruption is rampant in the state. It is widespread in all irrigation projects, Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya.
- No women representation in the Cabinet.
- Crime rate did not come down despite crores spent on police modernisation.
- Fake encounters are on rise in the State.
- Richest state in the country is now debt-ridden. Government borrowed more than Rs 1 lakh-crore
- KCR failed to get back the seven mandals lost to Andhra Pradesh.
- TRS government failed to fight the Centre in getting pending promises implemented.
- Freedom of press and freedom of speech are curtailed in the state. Suppression of all forms of dissent continues.
