TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao promises reservation for minorities, graft-free Telangana

Adilabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has changed his election agenda from other issues to political corruption considering the mood of the people these days and promised to run a non-corrupt government in the Telangana state if TRS was voted to power.

Addressing a public meeting here in Bhainsa on Sunday, Mr Rao wondered as to why TPCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah needs eight lakh crore funds to take up all the development works and implement welfare schemes in new state.

Mr Rao explained, “It was true because Congress leaders were habituated to siphon off 70 paise out of every '1 spent on welfare. But for me and S. Venugopala Chary, nominee for Bhainsa seat, don’t need that much money as we don’t encourage corruption. He asked Congress leaders why he should apologise to the settlers who migrated to Telangana to eke out a living.

Mr Rao reiterated that there would be no contract employees in the Telangana state and services of all the contract workers working in various government departments would be regularised and added that ideologically he was against the contract system because it was nothing, but exploitation of labour.

In Adilabad, he appealed to Muslim electorate to vote for TRS to form the government in the new state as they had supported Congress and TD in the past. He promised to implement 12 per cent reservations to minorities and to accord judicial powers to state Wakf Board. He appealed to the minorities not to allow communal forces to get strengthened.