Telangana people want Cong govt back to fulfil their aspirations: Bhatti

HYDERABAD: Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Thursday assured farmers of Shamshabad mandal that the Congress would back them in their fight against the alleged encroachment of 700 acres of land in Jasneguda by Goldstone Company with the aid of ruling party leaders.

He was speaking to groups of farmers during his padayatra Shamshabad to Venkatapuram in Rajendranagar constituency of Ranga Reddy district. At Narkuda, Congress cadre brought a huge garland with the help of a crane and felicitated the CLP leader.

Addressing people of various villages, Bhatti said that people of Ranga Reddy district were facing severe injustice in terms of water, funds and jobs. The government had taken back land around Hyderabad worth '25 lakh crore that the previous Congress governments had given to the poor, including '5 lakh crore worth land in Ibrahimpatnam constituency.

Bhatti said the BRS government through Dharani had taken over thousands of acres of land that farmers had been cultivating for decades in Bahadurguda, Kotwalguda of Shamshadbad mandal. While the Congress governments gave pattadar passbooks to the farmers, the BRS government included their land in Part B with a view to them them over, he alleged.

The CLP leader said land costing '4 crore per acre were included in Part B and some BRS leaders had turned into brokers and were purchasing them at '15 lakh per acre.

Bhatti said that while the previous Congress governments had designed the Babasaheb Ambedkar Pranahitha-Chevella project to meet the irrigation requirements of Ranga Reddy district, the BRS government had redesigned it as Kaleswaram project and stopped water coming to the district.

“The BRS government fooled the people by claiming that it would provide water to Ranga Reddy district through the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy lift irrigation project but even after nine years not even a drop of water is given to the district. The district even today is getting water only through the projects constructed by Congress governments,” Bhatti explained.

He regretted that Telangana state was achieved with the slogan of ‘Our lands for us, our water for us’ and he called upon people to remove the BRS government that was preventing these two goals from materialising.

The BRS government has completely neglected education and public health. The promised construction of 100-bed hospitals in every Assembly constituency had been ignored. The government had weakened the state-run schools and strengthened private and corporate schools and colleges and people should oppose these policies, Bhatti said.

“The children of Backward Classes communities who pursued higher education neither have jobs as the government did not fill vacancies nor are they able to take up their hereditary professions,” the Congress leader said and alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was solely responsible for this.

The Congress leader assured the unemployed that soon after the Congress came to power, all the vacant government posts would be filled and outsourcing system would be done away with in public sector units and replaced with full-time recruits. The Warangal Declaration for farmers and Hyderabad Declaration for students and the unemployed would be implemented 100 per cent, he said.

The Congress has always delivered on its promises, he said, pointing out that it had promised Telangana statehood and had kept its word. “If the objectives of Telangana state are to be achieved, the Congress that gave the state should be brought back to power. In the next four months, one would see the change in people’s mood and very soon Congress flag would hoist on the Golconda fort,” he said.

Ranga Reddy district Congress president Challa Narasimha Reddy, PCC general secretary Venu Goud, Borra Jnaneswar Mudiraj, Rachamalla Siddeshwar and other Congress leaders participated in the meeting.