BJP wants CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to share city Swachh campaign

Hyderabad: BJP MLAs staged a dharna in front of CMO’s Samatha Block in the Secretariat on Tuesday demanding Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao involve people and legislators in the ‘hijacked’ Swachh Hyderabad programme and also discuss other city related issues.

BJP legislators led by its floor leader K. Laxman along with state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy and other legislators wanted to meet the Chief Minister to discuss Hyderabad city related issues, but the former was not present in office.

This upset the BJP MLAs K. Laxman, G. Kishan Reddy, C. Ramachandra Reddy, Raja Singh, N.V.S.S. Prabhakar and N. Ramachander Rao who staged a sit-in in front of the CMO’s office with placards.

Mr Kishan Reddy will lead a delegation to Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Wednesday to lodge a complaint against the TRS government.

It plans to take up CM ‘secrecy’ in Swachh Hyderabad programme and involvement of only officials, but not people and elected representatives in severe drinking water problem, pattas to poor dwellers, drainage, two-bedroom houses, SC, ST sub-plan, slow pace of Metro Rail work, shifting of Secretariat and Chest Hospital, food courts in NTR stadium, construction of new Vinayak Sagar at Indira Park for immersion of Ganesh idols and forcible collection of property tax by GHMC., interest free loans to urban women under DWCRA among others.

“The CM promised to hold a meeting with city legislators but its 11 months since the state and government has been formed yet he did not hold the meeting. We tried to seek an appointment several times but failed. We took a chance today to see if he was available in the Secretariat. He was not available. We had no option but to stage the dharna. The government woke up to Swachh Bharat initiated by the Modi government and started its own version of Swachh Hyderabad with officials. Neither people nor elected representatives are being involved,” Dr Laxman alleged.

Dr Laxman also alleged that the CM took up Swachh Hyderabad programme with an eye on GHMC elections. “The government is maintaining utmost secrecy in Swachh Hyderabad programme. We don’t know why. When Rs 200 crore public money is spent, it cannot be an officials’ programme. The government should involve people and elected representatives. GHMC offices are empty and all have reportedly gone for training for Swachh Hyderabad,” he said.