Telangana Should Break Free of Dynastic Rule: Rahul
Hyderabad: AICC President Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-day tour to Telangana, launched severe criticism against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and said it was time to end the the dynastic rule in the state. As part of his tour, Rahul held an interactive meeting with DWCRA women at Classic Convention Centre in Rajendranagar and answered several questions.
The Congress President said that GST stands for Gabbar Singh Tax. He said when Congress was in power and tried to introduce much simpler GST, Narendra Modi, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat put obstacles. Congress believes that without women’s development, there was no development. But unfortunately, both PM Modi and CM KCR have conveniently forgotten this fact, he said.
Rahul assured all that after Congress came to power, women's self-help groups would be put on the highest pedestal. He accused the Telangana government of grabbing lands from the farmers and said the government was completely corrupt. Both Modi and KCR government have not bothered to fulfill the promises made.
He said let alone two crore jobs yearly, there was lack of health and education facilities in the country under Modi government. He promised to create employment when Congress comes to power. He reminded the people that it was the Congress government which had distributed medicine freely in Rajasthan, introduced National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and also full loan waiver for the farmers.
Rahul said that Congress would form the government in Telangana and it would the government of women's self-help groups. He announced if their party wins Telangana assembly elections interests on loans taken by women would be waived.