Jogu Ramanna: Congress has no right to ctiticise K Chandrasekhar Rao

karimnagar: Forests and environment minister Jogu Ramanna said the former ministers of the Congress who betrayed the cause of separate Telangana by working in the Cabinets of former Chief Ministers Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and N. Kiran Kumar Reddy do not have the moral right to criticise Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The Congress leaders have been criticising Mr Rao for assuming the post of Chief Minister without fulfilling his promise of making a Dalit as the first CM of the newly-carved out Telangana state.

Addressing the media here on Sunday, Mr Ramanna said that both Telangana PCC chief Ponnala Lakshmaiah and former Union minister S. Jaipal Reddy never consoled the kin of Telangana martyrs when many people died for the cause. “They never raised the Telangana  before the Congress High Command. In fact, they tried to save their political positions by being silent on the issue.”  Further, the minsiter accused Mr. Laxmaiah of maintaining silence when water from Pothireddipadu irrigation project was illegally supplied to Rayalaseema.

“He did not raise his voice when crops were withering due to inadeaquate power supply. Congress leader Jana Reddy and former civil supplies minister D. Sridhar Babu also did not respond when late
Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said he would not give a single paisa to Telangana in the Assembly,” he reminded. On the Intensive Household Survey-2014, he said the survey would enable the beneficiaries to reap benefits of various welfare schemes. As many as 22 lakh families would have been meted injustice if the TRS government believed in words of the Congress with regard to total number of families in Telangana state. “The Congress said that there were 84 lakh families. But, the survey revealed that the state has 1.06 crore families,” the minister pointed out at the press conference.