Hyderabad: Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Wednesday said Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao should stop making false claims and desist from cheating people and giving them false hopes.
He was speaking after hearing complaints from many women during his padayatra in Mahbubnagar district.
In Ammapur, woman farmer Nagamma told him that even 15 days after she harvested paddy, the government had not opened purchase centres. She feared that unseasonal rain could damage the crop that was lying out in the open.
NREGS workers who met Bhatti said there were no basic amenities at the work place.
Bhatti said that the state had a surplus budget when it was formed but the Chandrashekar Rao government had pushed into ₹5 lakh crore debt while not creating any assets. The situation is such that banks are refusing to lend to the state, Bhatti said.
He repeated his charge that the government was taking back assigned land that the previous Congress government has given to the poor, and was selling it as real estate. Assigned land could only be taken for public purpose, under the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, he said and asked: “Who gave them the right to mark plots and sell the land.”
He said nearly 30,000 acres given to SC, ST and BC communities had been acquired through force and given to multinational companies. Minister K.T. Rama Rao was acting like the CEO of companies, Bhatti remarked.
Ex-APCC president Sake Sailajanath, TPCC senior vice-president Mallu Ravi, TPCC general secretary Janampalli Anirudh Reddy, Mahbubnagar DCC president G. Madhusudhan Reddy, Youth Congress president Shiva Sena Reddy, TPCC vice-president Obaidulla Kotwal, TPCC state secretary Dr Kurava Vijay Kumar, OUJAC leader Gaddam Srinivas participated in the padayatra.
