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Congress told to release white paper on schemes for BCs

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TDP asks Congress if they had fulfilled any of the pre-poll promises made

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Party has demanded that the Congress Government release a white paper on what it had done to improve the lot of the backward classes (BCs) since it assumed power in 2004.

At a press conference here on Friday Deputy Leader, TD Legislature Party, Kala Venkata Rao took objection to Congress leaders’ attempt to ridicule the party’s ‘BC Garjana’ on Wednesday, a mega meeting that was ‘very clearly an out and out success’.

Mr. Venkata Rao, P. Yadagiri, MLC, P. Chandrasekhar and P. Alladi Rajkumar, both former Ministers, lashed out at Ministers N. Raghuveera Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and M. Mukesh Goud for making ‘specific and personally derogatory comments’ on TDP leaders and in generally criticising the party’s show.

‘Time to answer’

Mr. Rao asked the Congress leaders if they had fulfilled at least one or several pre-poll promises they made. “Has the Congress Government been able to stop the suicide of at least one weaver or an artisan in the past four years ?” he asked.

It was time for the Government to answer people, he said, adding that the TDP’s BC Garjana was a success only because the Congress had failed to take care of BC welfare.

Mr. Chandrasekhar said that of 18 House Committees in the Legislative Assembly, there was no member from the BC communities, except for the committee on BC Welfare.

Likewise, there was none from the BCs heading the six urban development authorities or six major devasthanams, he said.

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