It has not even been a week since the new government of the Congress led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy was formed in Telangana, after defeating the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the assembly elections.
Though Revanth Reddy has quickly plunged into action, some of his cabinet colleagues have not taken charge as the ministers in their chambers in the Secretariat, let alone commencing the official work.
Yet, the opposition has already begun targeting the Revanth government. On Wednesday, BRS working president K T Rama Rao said the Congress would not be spared if its electoral promises were not implemented.
In an informal interaction with media persons at the assembly, KTR said the Congress came to power by making unviable promises during the elections without considering their feasibility.
“There is a record for every promise made by the Congress including by the chief minister and they would be revealed at appropriate time. We shall expose these hollow promises time and again,” he said.
KTR said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had promised to implement a crop loan waiver within 24 hours after forming the government. Revanth Reddy assured to hike social security pensions to Rs 4,000 after assuming power.
“He pledged to give legitimacy to six guarantees in the first Cabinet meeting. He also promised to provide Rs 15,000 per acre per annum to farmers under Rythu Bharosa, within 10 days after the elections. What happened now?” he asked.
The BRS working president said his party understands the difficulty in implementing crop loan waiver and were waiting to see how the Congress government would implement it.
He said political parties can speak as per their whimsical when they are in opposition, but those in the ruling party cannot.
He also ridiculed the State government’s decision to release a white paper on Telangana’s state financial condition.
He reminded that the entire State budget including borrowings are audited and tabled in the assembly, which is nothing but a white paper on the budget expenditure.
“Before making promises, the political parties should check their feasibility. If the Congress did not check the audit reports, how are we concerned?” he asked.
