Congress brands KCR King of Corruption and Rhetoric

​Hyderabad: Upbeat with the huge turnout at the public meeting addressed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at Medchal, the Telangana Congress on Saturday announced setting up of a ‘people's commission’ after releasing a 24-point chargesheet against Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led TRS government. Telangana Congress affairs in-charge RC Khuntia released the chargesheet in the presence of All India Congress Committee media in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala and others at a media conference.

Addressing the media on the occasion, Surjewala said Telangana has re-emerged as the second most corrupt state in the entire country under KCR regime and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has earned the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt.

Delivering some punch lines, Surjewala said KCR means King of Corruption and Rhetoric, TRS means Telangana Ravaged by Self-Interest, 3Cs of KCR coterie are corruption, commissions and cheating. Surjewala said Chandrasekhara Rao has hijacked the Telangana movement and betrayed the people's trust by allowing corruption becoming rampant. He said the four-year and three-month regime of the Chandrasekhara Rao saw the most corrupt rule. The single point agenda was perpetuation of the rule of KCR’s family.

He said the aspirations of the people of the state for water, funds and jobs remained a pipedream. The TRS government’s name should enter the Guinness Book of World Records for unbridled corruption. Surjewala said the CMS has ranked Telangana as the second highest corrupt state in the country. The TRS-KCR private limited government has plundered the public resources and filled the coffers of the party leaders. "Money has been swindled in purchase of ambulances. Sand mafia ruled the roost. As much as 796 acres of government land in Miyapur has been transferred to private people.

“Rs 300 crore has been spent on purchasing vehicles for police without the consent of the Cabinet and those who matter in the government pocketed the kickbacks in Mission Kakatiya programme,” he said. TRS senior leader K Kesava Rao has purchased forest land of about 50 acres, and plastic pipelines have been chosen in the place of MS and DI pipes in the Mission Bhagiratha programme to loot the public money.

Warning the voters that a vote to the TRS would be a vote for the BJP, Surjewala said the Chief Minister has become a stooge of Prime Minister Modi. "The Chief Minister never questioned the failure of the Centre in implementing the promises made to Telangana in the AP Reorganisation Act," he said. “The Chief Minister proved that he is a ‘Chota Modi’ supporting the NDA in election of president, vice president and deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha,” he said and alleged that Chandrasekhar Rao is making a show that he has distanced himself from the BJP.

Referring to the stress in the farm sector, Surjewala said that as many as 4,511 farmers have committed suicide in the regime of the TRS. He said that while there were only 45 lakh farmers according to the Integrated Agriculture Survey, the government has given incentive under Rythu Bandhu to about 58 lakhs and questioned as to where the additional number of farmers had come. The modus operandi in making money out of irrigation projects was to first redesign them, escalate the estimates and pocket commission from the contractors. The cost of the Kaleshwaram project has been escalated from Rs 35,000 crore to Rs 85,000 crore for this reason only. Similarly, the cost of other projects too was raised by Rs 61,489 crore.

The public debt was doubled, and it was taken to Rs 1.80 lakh crore. If the guarantees are added it reaches to Rs 2.20 lakh crore. The burden of debt on each district was Rs 7000 crore, on each mandal Rs 370 crore and on each village Rs 21 crore. He said the Congress would extend the Rythu Bandhu scheme to the farmers, labourers and tenant farmers after coming to power. The manifesto of the party would be released in two to three days. Former MP Madhu Yashki Goud, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Election Campaign Committee Convener Sravan Dasoju and TPCC Treasurer Gudur Narayan Reddy and others were present at the meeting.