Congress, BJP cannot be trusted, says Harish Rao

Health minister T. Harish Rao on Thursday warned that if Congress came to power in Telangana, things would return to what they were in the past: Three hours of power supply a day for farmers, burnt agricultural pumps and shortage of fertilisers.

He cautioned the people to be wary of promises from the BJP which failed to establish a steel factor in Bayyaram and a railway coach factory in Kazipet after promising to do both under the AP Reorganisation Act.

Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stone for a `36-crore 100-bed hospital to



be in Maripeda of Mahabubabad district, Harish Rao said it was Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao who made it possible for Telangana to have 24-hour power supply, and develop irrigation in such a way that water was flowing in the SRSP canal.

"The Congress claimed that it will turn thandas into gram panchayats, something KCR has already done. Revanth Reddy keeps saying farmers need only three hours of power. There is only one leader who has the welfare of farmers in his heart, and that is KCR," he said.