HYDERABAD: Alleging that the Congress govt is to blame for the state's power and
water crisis
, former chief minister and
BRS
president
K Chandrasekhar Rao
on Sunday warned that BRS will wage a a war against it. BRS will not sleep and nor let the govt sleep if promises are not kept, he said, reports SribalaVadlapatla.
Alleging that the inept Congress govt is to blame for the state's power and water crisis, former chief minister and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao has warned a war will be waged against the Congress govt.
BRS will not sleep and not let the govt sleep, if promises are not kept, he added.
Addressing the media in Suryapet on Sunday after visiting withered paddy crop in Jangaon, Yadadri, and Suryapet districts under the 'Polam Baata' by BRS, KCR slammed the Congress govt for not paying '
Rythu Bandhu
' and the reappearance of water tankers, motors, empty pots despite good rainfall. "I wanted to give time to the new govt for three to four months, I don't want to talk politics now, we will fight for the
farmers
, I appeal to them not to take extreme steps like suicide," he added.
He urged BRS cadre to submit memorandums to collectors and MLAs at the secretariat on April 2 demanding a 500 bonus per quintal of paddy. The BRS chief said that everyone would sit on 'Deeksha' on April 6 in front of all paddy procurement centres and raise slogans. Incidentally, AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and former chief Rahul Gandhi will hold a public meeting at Tukkuguda in Rangareddy district on April 6 and release the Telugu version of party's elections manifesto.
"You (Congress) are alleging as if something is wrong with Rythu Bandhu, we used to dispense funds in a week, even now most farmers don't get funds, in addition, CM A Revanth Reddy told farmers not to pay loans, but banks are after them, they have taken loans to face the water woes with help of borewells, this is total mismanagement," he said.
KCR said: "I never thought that in just 100 days, the situation would turn so bad... 200 farmers committed suicide, 15 lakh acres have dried up, around 3.5 lakh acres in Nalgonda alone." He said the Congress govt failed to continue 24-hour free power supply. "Hyderabad was made a power island city" for the benefit of IT companies and the environment. "During BRS term, we hired technocrats instead of IAS officers to ensure round-the-clock quality power supply," he added.
He said 14 TMC of water was available in Nagarjunasagar project, but crops on lakhs of acres had dried up. "BRS govt distributed 500 crore when rains damaged crops," he said, demanding enumeration of crop damage and distribution of 25,000 per acre as compensation.
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