Dismissing 48K TSRTC staff is brazen act: BJP

Hyderabad: BJP Telangana State, chief spokesperson, K Krishna Saagar Rao said BJP strongly believes that there is a well-thought-out plan behind the brazenness of dismissing 48,000 employees of RTC by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.

In a statement on Monday, he said that TSRTC has very valuable assets in the form of high-value lands across the length and breadth of the State.

Especially, it's a known fact that RTC has over hundreds of acres of very valuable land within the GHMC area too.

He stated that the BJP is of the view that in the guise of a failed and a loss-making enterprise, the RTC will be undersized and eventually merged with the State government.

The decision to dismiss almost all the employees of RTC is only optics. It is to create fear and uncertainty amongst the employees and bring division within employee unions.

Certainly, CM KCR will eventually propose a merger and make it look like he is heeding to the demands of the employees.

BJP warns State government not to liquidate a very efficient organisation like RTC, instead the corporation can be revived to serve the poor and needy with right governance and effective administration, he added.