Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka stated that the people are familiar with the development and welfare initiatives being carried out by the State government, and these programmes have effectively reached their homes.

He stated that the people of the Telangana would support and bless the Congress party in the upcoming local elections. Speaking to the media at the Madhira camp office on Monday, Bhatti Vikramarka said while the BRS leaders destroyed the State’s financial and administrative systems over ten years, the State government has been steadily rectifying them according to plan.

He said the welfare and development programmes undertaken by the Congress party for farmers, women and youth are well known to their hearts and minds. The Deputy Chief Minister said that for social justice, Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and the Indiramma government have fulfilled the decades-long aspirations of the Backward Classes. Under the Planning department, a socio-economic, political, educational and employment survey was conducted and 42% reservation was provided for BCs, he said.

The Deputy Chief Minister alleged that BRS leaders are trying to smear and drag the Congress party, which stands for the people, into courts through conspiracies. They promised a job for every household and three acres of land for Dalits but failed to implement them, he said.

Bhatti Vikramarka criticised that even after ten years, the promised Rs 1 lakh farm loan waiver was not fully implemented. He said the Kaleshwaram project built with Rs 1 lakh crore has collapsed.

He stated that the Congress has fulfilled 99% of its promises. Along with Group-I and Group-II, 60,000 jobs have already been given to the youth; Rs 21,000 crore farm loan waiver; Rs 9,000 crore “Rythu Bharosa” in nine days; free power to 29 lakh agricultural pump sets; free electricity up to 200 units; a bonus of Rs 500 per quintal to farmers cultivating fine rice; and “Indiramma Houses” worth Rs 5 lakh each – in the first phase 4.5 lakh houses are being constructed at a cost of Rs 22,500 crore, he explained.

Out of 1.05 crore families in Telangana, 96 lakh families are being supplied fine rice at six kilos per person free of cost, while the same rice costs Rs 56 a kilo in the open market, he said. Free travel for women in RTC buses statewide, and interest-free loans worth Rs 20,000 crore every year to women Self-Help Groups – making one crore women millionaires in five years – are also being implemented, Bhatti Vikramarka added.