Hyderabad: TRS did nothing for Hyd, fumes Revanth

Hyderabad: Congress Working President and Malkajgiri MP A Revanth Reddy has made an earnest appeal to GHMC voters to ensure 70 seats to the opposition, for a reason, in case they give 80 seats to the ruling TRS party. He said that democracy will survive only if there is a strong opposition to raise the voice and issues of the common public.

"Please ensure win of 25 to 30 Corporators from Congress, urged Revanth, promising that he would make a "difference" to Hyderabad. At a Meet-The-Press programme held at Somajiguda Press Club on Monday, Revanth Reddy pointed out that there was no one to question or raise public issues in Assembly as all legislators are in the TRS fold.

During Channa Reddy, NT Rama Rao, Chandrababu Naidu or YS Rajashekar Reddy regimes, opposition parties had a strong voice and played an active role in state politics. But in the last six years in the state, TRS government tried to crush, suppress the opposition no end to make a mockery of democracy, Revanth said.

KTR accused the TRS government of claiming credit now for projects, programmes and initiatives did by the previous governments in the combined state in Greater Hyderabad including Metro Rail, ORR, Krishna and Godavari Waters to Hyderabad, Hitech City or IT development etc. Except for building Pragathi Bhavan with luxury amenities and demolishing the Secretariat complex, the TRS government had nothing in the capital city, Revanth felt, pointing out that Telangana was the only state in the country sans a Secretariat to run state administration.

He said TRS government only spent just Rs 6,000 crore in the last 6 years contradicting latter's statements of spending over Rs 67,000 crore on Hyderabad development in last 6 years. He took objection to the removal of TRS 2016 manifesto for GHMC polls.

Revanth alleged that lands in FTL and catchment areas in lakes were grabbed by TRS functionaries besides encroaching nalas. The recent floods in Hyderabad were not nature's fury but a man-made disaster. If not for these nala encroachments, the public would not have faced so much misery, he felt and sought to know what was the fate of KTR's 100-day action plan for Hyderabad that was announced 5 years ago.