Relentless fight over centre discrimination: Telangana CM

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao (known as KCR) on Thursday strongly stated that ‘ My bounden duty is to protect people in Telangana state till my last breath”.
His reaction came after he said its unfortunate that the centre is showing discriminatory attitude towards the independent Telangana state and discouraging the progressive and development oriented state.
In his speech after hoisting the national flag on the occasion of Telangana Formation day at Public Gardens here, Mr KCR said it is also our duty to fight against the ‘ politics of hatred to protect the interests of the country’.
There is no question of compromising at the cost of people’s lives, the CM said had we compromised have we ever achieved Telangana State till date.
The Telangana Agenda is distributing the fruits of developments, to all sections of people should be implemented all over the country, he said the Telangana people should be in forefront to build the ‘amazing India’.
When Telangana was a part of Andhra Pradesh the united rulers showed discrimination, now the Centre showing the same attitude to the independent Telangana state, he alleged and said the discrimination started from the initial days of formation of Telangana. Even before the Telangana state celebrated its foundation day, the Centre had merged 7 Mandals in Khammam district with AP. As a result, we lost the Sileru Power Project, he pointed out.
‘The Telangana government in the beginning itself has observed a Bandh protesting against the Center’s attitude and we are also now continuing our agitation to protect the interests of the state against the Centre’.
The AP reorganization Act had clearly stipulated that tax exemptions should give to allow more investments to the newly formed State, but the Centre had not given any incentives and all the promises made in reorganisation Act such as Bayyaram Steel factory, Kazipet Coach Factory were consigned to the dustbin, the CM said in his 21-pages speech.
Condemning the government at Center for delaying to delimit the constituencies in two states as clearly mentioned in the A.P. Reorganisation Act, he said the state had registered the unimaginable victories, which no state in our country as a whole could not do so in 75 years.
It is a universal fact that there is absolutely no comparison with the situation that existed when the Telangana State was formed and the present-day conditions, he said in economic development, the increase in Per Capita Income, in supplying free and quality power 24×7 to all sectors, in creating additional irrigation and drinking water, in welfare of the people, growth in IT and Industries and almost in all the sectors.
The Centre had miserably failed in procuring the Paddy cultivated in Telangana state despite several requests made by the state, he alleged and demanded the centre to procure every morsel of Paddy cultivated in Telangana, myself along with MLAs, MLCs, MPs and other public representatives who organized one day dharna in New Delhi protesting against the Centre’s adamant attitude in paddy procurement row.Bharatiya Kisan Union Leader Rakesh Tikait also participated in Dharna.
The CM also demanded a uniform policy on Paddy procurement all over the country or else the farmers will hit the streets.