Telangana assembly should be convened to allocate budget for Dalit Bandhu scheme: Congress

HYDERABAD: All India Kisan Congress vice president M Kodanda Reddy has demanded that a special session of the Telangana State Legislative Assembly should be convened to allocate over Rs 2 lakh crore budget at the rate of Rs 10 lakh for each family, for implementation of Dalit Bandhu scheme in the entire state.
“There is no guarantee that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will extend the scheme to the entire state once the by-poll to Huzurabad is over. For example, he had announced at a public meeting in LB stadium during GHMC elections that Rs 10,000 per family financial assistance would be extended to all the eligible families after the polls to the civic body but has not done it so far,” said Kodanda Reddy.
Former prime Minister Indira Gandhi had launched the Garibi Hatao programme which was appreciated by even the Left parties. The previous Congress governments had distributed lakhs of acres of assigned lands to the poor Dalits. Even these lands of SCs and STs are being snatched away by the TRS government in the name of Pharma City and other projects, he alleged.
“Now, KCR has announced the Dalit Bandhu scheme. He had made the poll promise of distributing three acres land to every poor Dalit family. Only a few thousand families were given land after which the scheme has been kept in abeyance. CM KCR and municipal minister KT Rama Rao should come clear on allocation of budget for the scheme,” Kodanda Reddy demanded.
TPCC working president Maheshwar Goud said the love being shown by CM KCR on the poll-bound Huzurabad constituency is sending the wrong message that an Assembly segment will receive a windfall of sops, schemes and projects only in case of a by-poll.
He called upon the MLAs to get ready to resign if they want development of their respective constituencies.
Former minister and TPCC senior vice-president Sambani Chandrasekhar said a state government should implement any specific welfare scheme for a community or all sections of the society from poorer sections in the entire state and not confine it to just poll-bound constituencies.
The previous Congress governments had implemented in all the Assembly constituencies schemes such as employment guarantee scheme, Indiramma Housing, land reforms, allotment of house sites to name a few, he said.