Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has ruled out the possibility of snap polls in the State. Responding to the motion on thanks on the Governor’s address to the joint session of the State legislature the Chief Minister said that the State will not have an early elections.
His remarks in the State legislative Council on Wednesday came in the backdrop of two major Opposition parties the BJP and the Congress predicting elections in 2018.
While the BJP State spokesman Krishna Sagar Rao said that the Chief Minister may go in for early elections in 2018 to take advantage of the weakness of the Opposition in the State, the State Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said that showering of sops in the latest Budget of Telangna indicates that the Chief Minister was planning to go for an early poll in 2018.
“Be it in 2018 or 2019, the Congress is ready to face the elections”, Uttam Kumar Reddy told the media while commenting on the 2017-18 Budget.
But KCR did not see any possibility of early polls. “We are confident that the people will bless the good work. We are moving forward rapidly by overcoming all the obstacles to achieve all the set goals. Our government is working for the welfare of the people”.
A confident KCR lashed out at the Opposition’s allegations. ‘If they prove any charge against us, I will quit”, he said. He claimed that the political corruption was eradicated to a large extent in the State and there had been no scam in the state during last two and a half years. “We are bringing a legislation under which action will be taken against any body who levels a false allegation”, KCR said.
listing out various measures taken by his Sovernment for the welfare of the weaker sections, the Chief Minister said that the State Government was purchasing 88 lakh sheeps and goats to provide 21 sheeps to every Yadav family in the State.
“In the next two and a half years the sheep population in the state will go up to four and half crore generating an income of `20,000 crore. The State will be know as the State of rich Yadav families in the country in the years to come”, he said.