Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan to Address Joint Session of Legislature today

Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will address the joint session of the Telangana Legislature on Friday. This will be the Governor's first address to the newly-constituted Legislative Assembly after the Congress came to power in the state in the recent Assembly elections.

The State Cabinet, which met at Legislative Assembly premises on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy deliberated at length on the contents that needed to be  mentioned in the Governor's speech and gave its approval for the Governor's speech copy.

Official sources said that the Governor's speech would highlight the previous BRS government's financial mismanagement during the last nine-and a-half years which imposed a huge debt burden of nearly Rs 5.5 lakh crore and how this huge debt was posing a tough challenge for the newly-formed Congress government to implement welfare schemes and



development programmes.

The Governor's speech would also highlight the Congress government's commitment to implement 'six guarantees' that were promised to people during Assembly polls, within 100 days of coming to power, despite financial constraints.

The Congress government through the Governor would reassure all stakeholders that  it would supply 24-hour quality and uninterrupted power to all sectors and for farmers 24-hour free power will be supplied unlike the BRS government which supplied 12 to 14 hours in phases but claimed to have supplied 24-hours free power to agriculture.

The Governor's speech would also have a mention of the Kaleshwaram project fiasco, sinking of pillars of Medigadda barrage and barrages developing cracks due to faulty designs and construction works after spending over Rs 1 lakh crore.