Hyderabad: Opposition leader in the Telangana Legislative Council, Mohammad Shabbir Ali, when speaking to the media on Wednesday, questioned how the poll percentage in the recent Telanagna Assembly elections had increased overnight by 11 per cent.
He demanded a reply from the Election Commission and the state government.
He said that it is a fact that there is a difference between the number of polled votes and the number of votes that were counted. He said that the Election Commission has to explain the difference of votes in thousands and said he had doubts about the EVMs (electronic voting machine).
Mr Ali also alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has changed his words on unemployment allowance, waiver of farm loans and retirement age of government employees. He said that the first thing the Chief Ministers of the new Congress governments in three states did was to sign on the farm loan waiver file. This shows the credibility of the Congress as opposed Chief Minister Rao.
He said that Mr Rao’s statement that pensions will be increased from the next financial year is cheating the people. He demanded that it be implemented immediately. The enhancement of retirement age for government employees should be implemented from January 2019. He also demanded that farm loans of up to '1 lakh should be waived at one time.
Mr Ali said the party will complain to Council chairman Swamy Goud about Congress MLC Damodar Reddy joining the TRS, and ask that he be disqualified.
He alleged that Mr Rao encouraged defections after he became Chief Minister in 2014. He said that no action has been taken against MLAs and MLCs who had defected, despite complaints by the Congress party, though action has been initiated on TRS complaints against MLCs who joined the Congress. This, he said, is a partisan attitude. He demanded that MLCs Damodar Reddy and M.S. Prabhakar be disqualified immediately.
