The Telugu Desam Party has demanded that the State Government refrain from its proposal to construct the new secretariat complex at Bison Polo Grounds.
The Government should instead focus on constructing the double bedroom houses assured to the poor in the land that was being acquired from the defence authorities. The Government should simultaneously start construction of double bedroom houses in all the mandal, assembly and district headquarters and sanction Government works to contractors who venture into construction of these houses for the poor, TDP working president A. Revanth Reddy said.
In a letter addressed to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Mr. Revanth Reddy said that the Government was trying to divert the attention of the people from the suicide attempt by two dalit youth in the name of double bedroom housing scheme.
“The talk about model of state secretariat surfacing suddenly when the Government’s failures on fulfilling distribution of three acres of land each to all the dalit families exposes its tendencies to divert the attention of the people,” he said.
He lamented that three years after coming to power, the Government failed to fulfil its promise of providing double bedroom houses to the poor as assured in its election manifesto. Houses were not constructed on one pretext or the other including the non-cooperation from contractors who were unwilling to take up the ventures as these were not profitable.
He wondered where was the need for the new premises for the secretariat when the Chief Minister was operating mostly from his camp office without visiting the existing secretariat. “The Government is trying to relocate the State secretariat involving huge expenses in view of vaastu and other political considerations,” he said.