Revanth can’t govern, city’s civic infra collapsing under him: KTR

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Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Tuesday said the city was grappling with several civic issues due to misgovernance of the Congress govt led by CM A Revanth Reddy.
During a meeting on city's pressing issues with local MLAs and MLCs at former minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav's residence in Jubilee Hills, KTR told them to work hard to ensure BRS wins the GHMC polls which are likely to be held in Dec. The meeting also discussed moving a no-confidence motion against mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi and the strategy for the GHMC council meeting to be held in a week.
KTR claimed people of Hyderabad had lost faith in CM Revanth's ability to govern. He reminded the legislators that in the last elections, all communities in Hyderabad trusted the BRS to deliver development and voted for its candidates with overwhelming majorities in the city. He urged the MLAs and MLCs to honour their trust by prioritising public issues and holding the govt accountable.
Directing them to concentrate on issues in Hyderabad for the next few months, KTR claimed the city had become a hub of hardships due to failures of the Congress govt.
The MLAs claimed that for the past year the city had been facing problems of sanitation, drinking water and power cuts. The issue of water tankers appearing in various areas even before the onset of the summer was a focal point. The MLAs also alleged that law and order had deteriorated in the city and claimed an alarming rise in land grabbing. The MLAs reported widespread public dissatisfaction with the Congress govt. Slum dwellers, in particular, were trapped in an unending cycle of problems, they claimed.
KTR stressed that Hyderabad's transformation during BRS' tenure was guided by long-term vision, with numerous flyovers, underpasses and link roads to address traffic woes. Even during the pandemic, these projects were completed on war footing to improve quality of life, he said.
In stark contrast, KTR claimed the Congress govt failed to even maintain the existing infrastructure, resulting in daily traffic snarls, accidents and damaged roads. The once effective waste management system had crumbled, leaving garbage piles in colonies. Public parks, which were developed and protected by the BRS govt, had become vulnerable to encroachments under Congress govt, he said.
BRS leaders were also directed to demand immediate fulfilment of promises made by the Congress.