CM Lying on Lagacherla Issue: KTR

Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday said Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s statement that were was no plan to establish a pharma village at Lagcharla, site of an attack on the district collector, should be taken with a pinch of salt. He claimed that a gazette notification issued by the state government had specifically mentioned about its establishment in the area.

In a statement on X (Twitter), Rama Rao said, “The CM had on several platforms said that a pharma city would be established in Lagcharla. Is it not true that his brother Tirupati Reddy is going around villages with police and private goons threatening ordinary village folk? Are false cases not being filed against farmers who refuse to yield to the intimidation? Now to claim that only an industrial corridor will be established there is a sheer attempt to fool the people.”

Responding to a courtesy visit by anganwadi workers, he said he would take up their issues with the government and discuss them in the forthcoming Assembly session. The workers told the BRS leader that those running mini-anganwadi centres were facing a heavy work burden as they had to attend to food distribution, child care and teach children in addition to survey duties and Pulse Polio implementation.

They informed stated as the mini centres had not been upgraded to major anganwadi centres the wage has fallen from Rs.15,600 to the previous pay of Rs.7,800. Non-payment of rent, vegetable costs and other expenses was leading to financial difficulties.