HYDERABAD: The BJP on Saturday castigated Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for ignoring the plight of people in the state who have been hit hard on account of the heavy rains and floods.
State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the Chief Minister learnt on Saturday that Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan was about to visit-flood hit people in Bhadradri Kothagudem district, and quickly decided to do the same on Sunday.
Sanjay said instead of playing politics and creating optics, the Chief Minister should at least now take concrete steps to rush to the aid of flood hit people in the state. He also questioned Rao’s claims that the state was following strict fiscal discipline and that its economy was on the upswing and asked for an explanation on why salaries of government employees were not being paid on time.
In a statement, Sanjay asked Rao for an explanation on the reasons behind salaries not being paid on time if Telangana's economy was doing well. "The Chief Minister claiming fiscal discipline is like the devil quoting the scriptures," Sanjay said.
From being Rs 390 crore in revenue surplus when the state was formed in 2014, the state slid to a situation where it was drowning in debt and experiencing Rs 16,500 in revenue deficit. The loans have risen from Rs 65,000 crore in 2014 to Rs 4 lakh crore now. These loans are in addition to the loans taken by various state owned corporations, he said.
