The way Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders are trying to throw blame on the previous governments headed by the Congress and the TDP for the present spate of suicides shows how irresponsible Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
It is more than 15 months since he came to power, but KCR is still trying to get away with his failures by shifting the blame on to the previous governments.
“How can he shirk his responsibility in preventing suicides even after being in power for 15 months? This is nothing but escapism and utter callousness,” Telangana Congress MLCs said on Tuesday.
Leader of the Opposition in the Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir and MLCs Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, Ranga Reddy, MS Prabhakar and Akula Lalitha ridiculed the TRS leaders for blaming the Congress for the recent suicides by farmers.
"Is the State being ruled by a Congress Chief Minister? You are in power for the last 16 months and did nothing for farmers. Rs 1 lakh crop loans were not waived off. Drought hit mandals were not declared even after farmers lost crops in last Khariff season. No report on damages due to unseasonal rains was prepared and no help was sought from the Centre.
The farmers were not paid any input subsidy and no one got a single rupee of crop insurance. Farmers lost three consecutive crops and got no help from the State or Central Government. Who is in power? Congress or TRS?
Do you expect Opposition Congress to declare drought-hit mandals or pay input subsidy or compensation?" Shabbir Ali asked, adding whether the Congress committed a sin by granting statehood to Telangana, a revenue surplus State, which KCR has turned into a bankrupt State.
