With agenda in mind, KCR to meet Modi today

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao left for New Delhi this evening on a four-day visit with a heavy agenda of discussion with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.

According to the official sources the Chief Minister will meet Modi on Friday afternoon to discuss wide range of issues including the recently launched ‘Rythu Bandhu’ scheme of Rs 4,000 investment support per crop to the farmers and also all the pending issues related to the bifurcation of the State.

KCR had visited New Delhi on May 28 but had to return without meeting the Prime Minister due to his unavailability.

The meeting also assumes political significance in the backdrop of KCR’s well publicised attempt to forge a third front with the regional parties but which has apparently failed to take off. Interestingly the State Governor ESL Narasimhan will also be in Delhi at the same time and meet the Prime Minister. He too had visited New Delhi last month but could not meet Modi. Sources said that Governor has already submitted a report to the Centre on the political situation in both the Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Before leaving for national Capital KCR met the Governor in Raj Bhavan.

Sources said that in his meeting with the Prime Minister KCR will raise the issue of pending Bills of increasing reservation quota for backward Muslims and scheduled tribes to 12 per cent.

He will draw the attention of the Prime Minister to a resolution passed by the State legislature and sent to the Centre in the past.

Pending issues like the bifurcation of the State High Court, funds of the propose All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the State and handing over the property of Andhra Pradesh Bhavan to Telangana will also come up for discussion. Officials said that the CM will bring to the attention of the Prime Minister that the present Andhra Pradesh Bhavan land was given to the State in lieu of the Hyderabad House built by Nizams of Hyderabad and hence the entire property should go to Telangana. Post bifurcation Andhra Pradesh was claiming that it should also get half of the land on the prime Ashoka Road in New Delhi.

Sources also said that the Chief Minister will also invite the Prime Minister to visit Telangana next month to commission the prestigious Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project on river Godavari as the State Government was planning to see that the first motor pump of the project starts running as soon as possible.

The Chief Minister will also raise the demand of linking the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme with agriculture sector as it will not only help the laborers but also the farmers who were facing the dearth of farm hands.

KCR will also seek a fresh Presidential order to implement the new zonal system proposed by the State Government for the public employment and education.