TRS government is all set to create a record: Harish Rao

Irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said on Mon-day that the TRS will not work to dethrone Narendra Modi or enthrone Rahul Gandhi, but only work to protect the interests of Telangana.

Mr Harish Rao condemned Mr Gandhi’s reported comments that the TRS was moving closer to the BJP.He accused the  Congress of resorting to ‘blackmail politics’ by taking up false propaganda that parties which are not coming forward to have election tie-ups with the Congress, are the BJP-friendly parties.Speaking to reporters at Sangareddy, he said, “For TRS, the interests of TS and Telangana pe-ople are of utmost impo-rtance. We don’t work to dethrone Modi from po-wer or help Rahul Gan-dhi to come to power.”

Mr Harish Rao questioned Congress leaders why they were not talking about the injustice to Telangana due to non-implementation of provisions incorporated un-der the AP Reorgani-sation Act, 2014.“Telangana was entitled to special incentives for industrial and IT sectors as per the AP Reor-ganisation Act. We are also entitled to various tax exemptions. Nothing has materialised so far. But no Congress leader talks about all this,” Mr Harish Rao said.

He said the government has made all the arrangements for the smo-oth distribution of cheques to nearly 60 lakh farmers at the rate of Rs 4,000 per acre for Kharif this year from May 10. The cheques are sent village-wise to all the districts, he said.Mr Harish Rao said the TRS government is all set to create a record by distributing Rs 12,000 crore to farmers every year, which was unheard-of not only in the country but also in the world.