India

Telangana MPs to corner Modi Govt in Parliament

Omer Farooq

Charging the NDA Government at the Center with stepmotherly treatment with the State, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti(TRS) has decided to raise the issue in the coming Winter Session of Parliament.

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will hold a meeting with his party MPs in Hyderabad on Monday to discuss the party’s strategy for the Parliament session.

He urged them to raise the problems of the State including the National status for Pranahit-Chevella irrigation project, construction of national highways and the division of the State High Court.

Firing fresh salvos at BJP, TRS MP from Nizamabad K Kavitha announced on Sunday that the party will raise the Union Government’s neglect towards Telangana in the ensuing Winter Session of Parliament. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will hold a meeting with his party MPs in Hyderabad on Monday to discuss the party’s strategy for the Parliament session.IJ

“The BJP Government at the Centre has not fulfilled even a single assurance made to Telangana under the AP Reorganisation Act. Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao had met Prime Minister Modi in June 2014 and submitted 14 demands but not even one has been fulfilled till now. Right from the formation of Telangana, the BJP Government has been completely neglecting the State,” Kavitha said in Hyderabad on Sunday.

later talking to the reporters, B Vinod Kumar, leader of TRS MPs in Parliament rued that the NDA Government was neglecting Telangana and was not doing any thing to meet the long pending demands including a hike in the minimum support price for the cotton. “We will fight for the rights of the State”, he said adding that the TRS MPs will raise the demand for increasing the state Assembly seats and the immediate division of High Court.