Uttam: KCR has betrayed jobless youth

Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has accused Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of betraying the students and jobless youth who sacrificed their lives and careers for the cause of statehood cause.

Addressing the jobless youth ‘Dhoom Dham’ programme at Tagore Auditorium of Osmania University on Monday evening, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the statehood for Telangana became a reality solely due to the sacrifices made by the students and youth.

AICC president Sonia Gandhi was moved by the suicides committed by several youth for the statehood cause. She decided to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh despite knowing well that the Congress party would suffer a major political blow.

"Her intention was to prevent other students and youth from taking extreme steps. However, KCR has brought students and youth to the same position where they stood before formation of Telangana. He completely neglected them and had been distributing benefits to the betrayers of Telangana and Andhra contractors," he said.

Uttam Kumar Reddy said the government had failed to fulfil the promise of providing one job for every household. He said the KCR government has failed to fill the vacancies in various departments which existed during the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh.

He said there was no dearth of funds for TRS government to pay to Andhra contractors, but it was not having money to pay Fee Reimbursement and scholarships for Telangana's
students.
He said KCR has deliberately starved all universities and other institutions of required funds. He also made a mention of how government's negligence led to the closure of several professional colleges in the State. "KCR was quick to release hundreds of crores to construct a palatial bungalow for his own accommodation.

But he has no funds even to carry out repairs in the students' hostels," he said.Recalling the sacrifices made by the students and youth, the TPCC chief said while hundreds of students laid down their lives for Telangana cause, thousands of youth participated in statehood agitation without fearing any consequences.

"Instead of rewarding those brave students and honouring the families of martyrs, KCR has tried to downplay their contribution by claiming that he alone had brought Telangana State." he alleged.