HYDERABAD: BRS working president and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday called upon voters to choose a BRS government to continue to derive benefits. He said that Telangana is a ‘trailblazer’, whose track record has become the role model not just for other states but also for the BJP-led Union government.
Giving a detailed presentation of the state’s achievements to media persons, Rao said that the fact that the Telangana model was being emulated by other states and the Centre indicated that the people-friendly BRS administration has ensured better standards of living, more investments and more employment opportunities, improved civic amenities and a rapidly transformed agricultural sector that is bringing smiles on farmers.
With regard to rural economy, Rao said that it was not just agriculture that the state has focussed on but also on allied sectors like fisheries, animal, husbandry, dairy development and oil palm cultivation, which have bolstered the rural economy. A comprehensive approach has doubled the earnings of farmers, he said, adding, “We wish to replicate this proven strategy across India; hence the national foray.”
During the days of the undivided Andhra Pradesh, nine of the then 10 districts were declared as backward areas and they were receiving ‘backward region grant fund’. But today, under the BRS rule, all Telangana districts have a per capita income that is over and above the national average, he said.
Every achievement of the BRS government across sectors was made possible by a government dedicated to developing the state “despite a Union government that has been inimical to the state.”
Referring to reconstruction of Yadadri temple, Rao said “Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is a devout Hindu and not a political Hindu.”
He challenged Rahul Gandhi and BJP leaders to make a presentation on public sector recruitment in states ruled by their parties.
