TRS manifesto a bundle of lies, flays Congress

Hyderabad: Former Minister & ex-Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday ridiculed the TRS manifesto for GHMC elections, released by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, and described it as a bundle of lies.

Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, Shabbir Ali said that the Chief Minister has a long history of making false promises during elections. He said that the TRS government never fulfilled the electoral promises it had been making since 2014. He said that the list of unfulfilled promises made by CM KCR is too long and people should not trust him or the TRS Government.

Citing examples, Shabbir Ali said that the TRS govt had promised developing Hyderabad like Dallas and Old City like Istanbul. Now it is promising that Musi river would be developed on the lines of Thames river in London.

Similarly, he said that the TRS government had made many empty promises, such as: shifting of Chanchalguda Jail and Hyderabad Race Course from Malakpet; Execution of ITIR region; Transforming Hyderabad into a software hub like Silicon Valley; A hardware hub like Shanghai; Establishment of Technology Development Bank; Hyderabad as Wifi City; Shifting of military installations in Secunderabad Cantonment and other parts; Cleaning of Hussainsagar Lake; New 'Vinayak Sagar' near Indira Park; World's tallest building at Sanjeevaiah Park; Skyscraper Zone at 40 locations around Hussainsagar lake; Elevated corridors, Skyways and Multi-level grade separators; Signal Free City; Bangkok traffic model; and, Slum-free city and another airport in the northern part of Hyderabad.

Before asking people to trust the new promises, CM KCR must explain whether all old promises have been fulfilled. He also pointed out that the TRS government immediately after coming to power in 2014, had promised to spend Rs. 30,000 crore for development of Hyderabad. However, not even Rs. 10,000 crore were spent in the last 7 years, he said.

Shabbir Ali said that the drinking water problem in Hyderabad was resolved due to the initiatives taken by the previous Congress government. He reminded that the previous Congress regime had executed three phases of Krishna Water project and first phase of Godavari River water project which cumulatively ensured supply of nearly 26.5 tmcft of water to the city. He said that the TRS only painted the existing reservoirs and pipelines with Mission Bhaghiratha to stake a fake claim that it resolved the drinking water problem.

Similarly, Ali said that the city was getting uninterrupted power supply due to the projects implemented during the Congress regime. He said except for Bhadradri Power Plant, TRS Government did not add a single unit to the power supply across Telangana State. "As the then Energy Minister, I was part of the Task Force constituted by then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to add 1.58 lakh MW of power.

This ensured setting up of several power plants across the country and today almost all States in the country are power surplus. Therefore, TRS Govt's taking credit for uninterrupted power supply is bogus," he said.