TS BJP president K. Laxman on Sunday criticised Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for keeping away from the NITI-Aayog meeting presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and said he owed an explanation to the people about his glaring absence.
“It is unfortunate when Team India is meeting for the first time after the NDA has been elected to power for the second time and important issues like accelerating country’s growth, agriculture, drought and others are being discussed, the CM could not find time to attend the meeting,” he said at a press conference.
The Chief Minister lost an opportunity to seek the Centre’s help on different issues and could have sought national project status to Kaleshwaram which got fast-track clearances but it was never acknowledged, he said and contrasted it with AP CM Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy who had highlight the need for special category status.
“He had time to meet Maharashtra CM and invite him for project launch but thought it fit not to invite Mr. Modi,” he said. TS CM appeared to be still smarting under the setbacks received in the LS polls where his daughter and close aide lost, he said and charged him and KTR with denigrating the BJP and the PM during the poll campaign.
High fees
The BJP unit had decided to extensively take up issues of unregulated school fees and filling of vacancies in government departments in the next one month with round table meetings with stakeholders and protest programmes. “In other states such exorbitant fees are not being charged in educational institutions as in Hyderabad and TS. We have identified such schools and colleges. The government has made the fee regulation committee redundant and has also withdrawn notices issued to 15 schools for collecting high fees,” he alleged.
Mr. Laxman said the TRS government had deceived the unemployed youth, filling just 20,000 vacancies. There had been no recruitment of teachers in schools or colleges with Group I and II notifications too not forthcoming. His party also opposed spending hundreds of crores of rupees on demolishing old buildings and constructing a new Secretariat when it was possible to make minor changes, if necessary, for the sake of Vaastu. He questioned the government’s silence on the progress of Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya and two-bedroom houses.