BRS for qualitative change, six key resolutions passed

Hyderabad: The BRS passed a resolution seeking qualitative change in the country, at the party's plenary on Thursday. BRS working president and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao, who moved the resolution, said the nation should draw inspiration from the party's successful 15-year-long fight for Telangana statehood.

The BRS was founded to change the country's situation and bring about a qualitative change in its politics and administration, he stated. India had abundant resources but successive governments over the last seven decades had failed miserably in tapping them and meeting people's basic needs.

"About 70,000 tmc ft of water flows in the rivers, of which only 20,000 tmc is being utilised. If the water that is flowing into the sea is utilised, water could be supplied to all the 41 crore acres of cultivable land," he said. Because previous governments allowed 50,000 tmc ft to the sea, there was a severe shortage of drinking and irrigation water in all the states except in Telangana, he said, where the BRS government had built irrigation projects.

He noted that smaller countries were building reservoirs, saying, "The world's largest reservoir was built by a small country like Zimbabwe. Farmers are committing suicide in several states as a result of a lack of farmer-friendly policies at the national and state levels."

The party passed resolutions seeking linking of agriculture with MNREGA, integration of agriculture with electricity, irrigation projects as well as on welfare schemes being implemented by the BRS government. Rama Rao highlighted the welfare schemes covering individuals of different age groups, from infants to the elderly.

A resolution on education and employment criticised the Centre bias against Telangana, which had resulted in a lack of medical colleges, nursing schools, and higher education institutes in the state. It stated that if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had kept his promise of creating two crore jobs per year, the BJP would not have needed to hold unemployment marches.

The party also moved a resolution to highlight the failures of the Modi government, such as the rise in the prices of essential commodities and skyrocketing fuel prices.