Hyderabad: Endowments minister Koppula Eshwar should question Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao over the failure of the party to spend budgetary allocations made over the years for SCs and not find fault with the SC/ST declaration of our party, said Congress MLC T. Jeevan Reddy.
If the BRS is confident of having delivered on its double bedroom promise, then it should not seek votes in villages where they have failed to deliver even one. The state government had proposed Rs 12,000 crore to construct 3,000 houses in each of the 119 Assembly constituencies. But the government has not constructed even 30 houses, he said.
Explaining the delivery of schemes over the years, he said, "While the BRS has failed to give the promised three acres land to dalits we had given 25 lakh acres over the years. It is for this reason that Rao introduced dalit bandhu ahead of the Huzurabad by-election. In 2021-22, though the government allocated Rs 17,500 crore only 100 beneficiaries received the benefits across constituencies. In 2022-23 not a single rupee was spent despite an allocation of Rs 17,500 crore," he said. It was ditto in
2023-24, though it was targeted to reach 1,500 beneficiaries in each constituency, Reddy said.
The BC bandhu scheme covers only 10 per cent of them. BC welfare was discussed for two days in the Assembly but nothing happened. In 2022-23, the minority bandhu was to the tune of Rs 80,000, which subsequently was enhanced to Rs one lakh but not even one individual has derived the benefit. The government should release a white paper on its schemes, the Congress leader said.
