Bandi demands white paper on developments in TS

BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao release a White Paper covering department-wise developments, if he believed in integrated development.

Sanjay alleged that BRS leaders were vying with the Kalvakuntla family for a share of the spoils with "their equally disgusting corrupt practices."

He was speaking after ‘parading’ his cricketing skills at the Khelo Bharat-Jitho Bhagyanagar programme organised by the party’s parliamentary board member Dr K. Laxman at the Nizam College ground here on Wednesday.

He said that Rao had admitted that some of his MLAs were accepting 30 per cent commission from welfare scheme beneficiaries. A BRS MLA gave only `1 lakh to a Dalit Bandhu woman beneficiary and siphoned off the remaining `9 lakh, he alleged.

If Rao returned to power, the situation would deteriorate further, he said, adding that Rao would borrow another `5 lakh crore and sink the state further into a debt



trap.

In order to promote a sports culture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had initiated the Khelo India programme but Rao had started the ‘Peelo Telangana-Pilavo Telangana’ programme by focusing on liquor sales. He said the BJP government at the Centre had increased sports budget by eight times while Rao had increased revenue from liquor sales from `10,000 crore to `40,000 crore, he said

The government’s failures are one too many, including non-disbursement of crop damage compensation and not providing jobs to the state’s unemployed youth, he said.

On the Karnataka poll verdict, he said that local issues were the clinchers. "A section of people said that Hindutva had vanished in Karnataka but we proved that it was intact with Hindu Ekta Yatra in Karimnagar," he said.

Sanjay said that the state leadership had urged the party high command to revoke the suspension of Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh.