The vice-chairman of the Telangana State Planning Board, B Vinod Kumar, accused the BJP government at the Centre of conspiring to weaken Singareni Collieries Limited (SCCL) financially by denying it coal blocks and eventually selling it to PM Narendra Modi’s crony capitalist friends.
The SCCL should be allocated coal blocks if the Centre is committed to its development, he said.
Vinod Kumar reportedly stated that the union government assigned Koyalgudem-111 coal block in Satthupalli to a private company through auction on August 10. The Centre’s decision to auction the coal blocks to private companies rather than allocate them to public companies like Singareni prompted him to ask what was the logic behind the move.
“This is the union government’s conspiracy to privatize the Singareni without even mentioning it as privatization. It is part of the BJP’s backdoor politics,” he said.
The vice chairman of the State Planning Board demanded that the union government stop auctioning coal blocks and instead allocate them to the public sector companies. A total of 82 coal blocks exist in Telangana, out of which SCCL operates 40. The company has requested that the Centre allocate the remaining 42 blocks so that operations run smoothly in the future.
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BJP State president Bandi Sanjay’s argument that the Centre was only auctioning coal blocks but not privatizing the company was ridiculed by him.
“How will Singareni survive without the allocation of coal blocks? Obviously, it cannot compete with private sector companies who are mostly profit-oriented, while the public sector companies like SCCL function with the motto of benefiting the people of the country.
TRS MLC K. Kavitha said on Saturday in Raikal, Jagitial district, that the Prime Minister had failed to tell people what he had done for Telangana over the last eight years. He had arrived empty-handed, had spoken half-truths, and had left.
She told a party workers’ meeting that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government, led by K. Chandrasekhar Rao, had transformed the state over the last eight years and planned to do so across the country under the banner of Bharat Rashtra Smithi (BRS).
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