TRS MPs say state got little for backing NDA

Hyderabad: TRS MPs Dr Bura Narasaiah Goud and B.B. Patil on Sunday alleged that the Centre was bulldozing all the objections raised by the state government and going ahead with its agenda of implementing the GST.

The MPs told mediapersons that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had with good intentions welcomed GST but the Centre was not considering the genuine and just demands of the state government that imposition of tax on ongoing construction works would result in additional burden on the exchequer and hamper development.

“We have been supporting the NDA government in all its decisions but in return the Centre is not coming forward to help the state government, Dr Goud said.

Listing out the pending issues, he said, “Where is the AIIMS which we have been demanding? Where is the increase in Assembly seats that was promised? Nothing has moved on setting up a steel factory at Bayyaram. There has been decision on declaring Kaleswaram as a national project.”

Replying to a question, he said Mr Chandrasekhar Rao was capable of coordinating with Chief Ministers of other states to bring pressure on the Centre to achieve the demands of the state government. “It is not new for the TRS to bring pressure and achieve its demands,” Dr Goud said.

At a separate media interaction, Peddapalli MP Balka Suman asked the Centre to reconsider its decision on imposing 12 per cent GST on ongoing construction work. He said said minister K.T. Rama Rao had vehemently opposed the measure during Saturday’s GST Council meeting.

He said the TRS will issue notice for an adjournment of the Lok Sabha proceedings to take up debate on the issue.