Telangana governor address purely customary and like BRS party’s election pamphlet: Congress

Hyderabad (TSIT): Congress MP & former TPCC President Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said Telangana Governor’s address to Telangana Legislature on Friday as expected, was purely customary and read like an election pamphlet of the BRS party.He described the joint session address by the Governor as factually incorrect and misleading.“The Governor’s address did not touch upon any problem being faced by the common people including the financial crisis, rising inflation, unemployment, agrarian crisis, neglect of education and health sectors, deteriorating Law & Order situation and other issues,” Uttam said in a media statement here.The Governor should’ve made necessary amendments to the speech copy scripted by the BRS Government, However the Governor did not question or verify the statistics mentioned in her speech and delivered a misleading speech before the Telangana legislature, he said.Disputing the claim that Telangana’s revenue increased to Rs. 1.84 lakh crore, he said , “The Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) and also the 15th Finance Commission has pointed out that Telangana Government was showing inflated figures of growth by counting debts and loans as revenues. Therefore, the claims on revenue receipts are factually incorrect. The government’s claim of Per Capita Income reaching Rs. 3,17,115 is also incorrect,: he saidAccording to the first multidimensional poverty index (MPI) released by NITI Aayog, about 13.74 percent of the population in Telangana is multidimensionally poor, the MP said.
, adding as many as 44.54 lakh people are surviving on a monthly Aasara pension of Rs. 2,000 which amounts to Rs. 12,000 per annum. In this scenario, how could the Per Capita Growth could cross Rs three Lakh, he questioned.
The Governor’s address was completely mum on the rising debts and crashing economy of Telangana, he said. The Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao might give several justifications for borrowing huge loans, but in reality, today Telangana is in debt of over Rs. 5 lakh crore which has to be repaid with huge interest.
The Congress MP said the Governor’s address had no mention of the rising unemployment in Telangana.
More than 40 lakh people in Telangana are jobless which includes nearly 25 lakh qualified youth who registered themselves with the State Public Service Commission, he said no assurances have been given on providing a job or at least the promised Unemployment Allowance of Rs. 3,016 to the jobless youth.
Uttam said the Governor completely skipped any mention of KCR Government’s flagship double bedroom scheme. The government had promised 2 BHK units to 2.76 lakh families, but not even 20,000 units were delivered to the intended beneficiaries in the last eight years.
He said as per the Intensive Household Survey conducted by the BRS Government itself, nearly 22 lakh families in Telangana do not own a house. However, the BRS Government has no solution to address this problem.
The Congress leader said the Governor’s address did not elaborate on the Dalit Bandhu scheme and no deadline was mentioned for providing Rs. 10 lakh assistance to all 17 lakh poor Dalit families. Shockingly, there is no mention of Girijan Bandhu which was launched during the Munugode by-elections, he added.