Hyderabad: In a concerted effort to take on the BRS in the upcoming Assembly polls, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned, deploying its central leadership to boost the morale of cadres, with even Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding two meetings within three days in Mahbubabad and Nizamabad.
Now, it is the turn of the BJP’s chargesheet committee to focus its attack on the BRS.
Speaking with Deccan Chronicle, former MLA Endala Lakshminarayana, who is the convenor of the chargesheet committee, said, “We will be exposing the performance of BRS on all fronts. It has failed to deliver on the much-hyped irrigation sector, power, industries and let down the backward communities by paying only lip service to them.”
“In the irrigation sector, while the party claimed it would irrigate 45 lakh acres through the Kaleshwaram project, it has not been able to provide water to even 45,000 acres. On the power front, the companies have come to be saddled with a debt of Rs 50,000 crore, of which Rs 20,000 crore is owed by the state government itself,” he said.
Lakshminarayana said that only 25 per cent of Mission Kakatiya works were completed, but the government was claiming to have completed all works by citing filled water tanks, which was due to heavy rains.
“This government has neglected the industries and has not paid them the promised subsidies, amounting to Rs 3,500 crore. Land is being acquired fro the poor at cheap rates and sold to industries like a real estate agent,” Lakshminarayana said.
Claiming people of backward classes were being taken for a ride, he said, “The government, which promised double bedroom houses to the poor, is cheating them with construction of caste bhavans. How are they useful to the poor from those castes?”
Former MLA Chintala Ramachandra Reddy, who is the joint convenor of the committee, said, “The government failed to construct two reservoirs at Shameerpet and Sunkesula to store 30 TMC ft of water in each of them from Godavari and Krishna rivers, respectively, to provide 24 hours water to Hyderabad. One lakh double bedroom houses were promised in Hyderabad, with 6,10,000 in the entire state, but the government failed in this.”
Reddy said that even works in Hyderabad were not done properly, citing the flooding of roads during the recent monsoon.
“Sewerage lines of Hyderabad were supposed to be increased to 1,800 mm in diameter, but this has not materialised. Even 2 cm of rain is flooding the city currently. CM KCR and urban development minister KTR claimed that the infrastructure will be developed to withstand 20 to 25 cm of rain. The SNDP (Strategic Nala Development Programme) has not been completed. Sewerage treatment plants, currently, can treat only 700 MLD while it was promised to increase capacity to 2,300 MLD,” he said.
