Telangana: Kishan Reddy Accuses CM KCR Of Double Standards Over Vizag Steel Plant Privatisation Issue

The Union Minister said the Telangana government had failed to deliver on the promises it made in its manifesto during the election about the opening of industries in the state.

Flagging that the BRS party has failed to deliver on promises they had made in their election manifesto, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy questioned whether Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had any moral right to speak over the Vishakhapatnam steel plant privatisation issue, PTI reported. 

Addressing the media at the BJP state office in Hyderabad on Sunday, Kishan Reddy said, "As many industries in Telangana were shut down, the BRS party in its manifesto had promised that in 100 days they will open the Nizam sugar factory. Now, it has been nine years, but not a single step has been taken by KCR in this direction. Does KCR have the moral right to speak about the Vishakhapatnam steel plant?"

Reddy asserted that on one hand the BRS party was staging a protest against the privatisation issue and on another hand, they claim to buy the Vishakhapatnam steel plant. 

"KCR and his family have been talking a lot about the Vishakhapatnam steel plant in the past week. Singareni collaries are in loss. It is not getting funds from the Telangana government. When PM Modi came to Hyderabad to inaugurate development works in Telangana, the Kalvakuntla family and BRS party organised protests, saying that Singareni is being privatised. On one side, they are staging protests about privatisation, and on the other, they say that they will buy the Vishakhapatnam steel plant," Kishan Reddy said.

The Union Minister also mentioned that the Telangana government had failed to deliver on the promises it made in its manifesto during the election about the opening of industries in the state.

"The state government had said they will set up a steel plant in Bayyaram even if the Centre does not cooperate. The people are asking today, after 4 years, why they are not setting up the steel plant in Bayyaram. They said they would open many industries that were shut down, but did they open a single factory until today? KCR should answer this," Reddy said. 

"The BRS manifesto also said that it would set up a revolving fund to open the small industries that were shut down. But to date, the revolving fund is still in the air. As many industries belonging to the SC community are in trouble, there is around Rs 837 crore to be given. Many subsidies in the state for SC, ST, and others are not being given. The Kalvakuntla family is now stating all other things to divert the people of Telangana from their failures," he further said.

Kishan Reddy further stated the Telangana government led by KCR had just one aim -- which is to criticise the Central government from morning to evening.

"Telangana people elected KCR for good governance and to fulfil the dreams of the Telangana people. However, today, he has left Telangana to the air and the Chief Minister and his family, in the name of BRS, have made their main agenda to criticise the central government from morning to evening," he said.