Veteran Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao today claimed that a dispute between the Chief Minister of the state KCR and former Minister Etela Rajender led to the by-elections in the Huzurabad Assembly constituency.
Speaking to media persons in Huzurabad, VH asked Etela as to why he joined rival BJP while stating that Etela had a good name before joining the saffron party.
He opined that Etela should have contested the elections as an independent candidate. He wondered as to how the voters of Huzurabad would vote for Etela, who joined the BJP, which is destroying the country. Making it clear that the Congress party is not responsible for the halting of Dalitha Bandhu’s scheme, he mocked that rivals TRS and BJP were blaming each other on the issue.
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Stating that some communities of the state are still languishing in poverty, VH denned the state government to extend the benefits of the dalitha Bandhu scheme to those communities too.
He said that CM KCR did not have any commitment to the welfare of the Dalits of the state and reminded that the CM had cheated the Dalits by not fulfilling his promises of three acres of agricultural land to the landless Dalits and CM post to a Dalit leader.
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he alleged that Modi had cheated the people of the country by retracting from his promise of crediting ₹15 lakh in their bank accounts after coming into power.
SOURCE-NSS
