Hyderabad: Congress blames KCR for Covid 'mess'
Hyderabad: Expressing serious concern over rising number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the State, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's inefficiency and inability were responsible for the present situation. He also announced the schedule for a series of agitational programmes to be held in the next one week on various issues.
He was addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan on Saturday along with TPCC Working Presidents Ponnam Prabhakar and Kusum Kumar, Vice-President Mallu Ravi, AICC Spokesperson Dasoju Sravan and other leaders.
The TPCC chief said there was only one Covid-19 hospital (Gandhi Hospital) for nearly 4 crore population of Telangana. He said that the lockdown period was not utilised properly to upgrade the infrastructure.
The TPCC chief said that TPCC Task Force Committee on Covid-19, headed by Marri Shashidhar Reddy, would make a representation with the Central Team, which is visiting Hyderabad. He said that the Congress party would organise protests against inflated electricity bills with black badges and flags in all mandal & assembly headquarters on July 3.
Reddy said that the Congress party would organise birth centenary celebrations of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao from June 28. The celebrations will go on for a year by way of organising different programmes.