Harish Rao also voiced concern over the Congress government's atrocities on tribal farmers in Lagacherla and highlighted incidents of third-degree torture and handcuffing.

Hyderabad: In a blistering attack on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for failing to ensure fruitful deliberations on the pressing issues of the people, BRS leader and former Minister T Harish Rao said on Saturday that the House as well as the public were misled on multiple counts during the just concluded assembly session.

For the first time in the history of the State, the session took off on a stormy note with arrests and detentions marking the occasion. BRS leaders who staged protests with black T-shirts with images of Adani and Revanth Reddy on them exposing the clandestine relationship between them were arrested, even while similar protests by the Congress were allowed in Parliament. Alleging that Revanth Reddy was trying to unleash an authoritarian rule by throwing to the wind all democratic norms in administration, he said Revanth Reddy had secretly replaced the Telangana Thalli statue with a Congress Thalli statue, using a GO numbered 1946 as a birthday gift to Sonia Gandhi. Harish Rao condemned Revanth Reddy for compromising Telangana’s self-respect by kneeling before Delhi.

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Harish Rao also voiced concern over the Congress government’s atrocities on tribal farmers in Lagacherla and highlighted incidents of third-degree torture and handcuffing. He criticized the Chief Minister for avoiding discussions on farmers’ issues and failing to address the pending bills of former sarpanches, MPTCs, and ZPTCs. Questioning the government’s failure to provide funds to villages and towns, he said they had broke all promises made in their manifesto. He pointed out the Congress government’s failure to address the issues of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan employees.

Exposing the Congress government’s false claims about State debts, Harish Rao again provided detailed figures to counter the allegations of the Congress government, which, he said, had availed loans to the tune of Rs 1.27 lakh crore in just one year, which would reach Rs. 6.37 lakh crore over five years.

He also criticized the Congress government for closing 1,913 government schools in one year and failing to address the deaths of students due to dog bites, snake bites and food poisoning. Harish Rao demanded Rs.10 lakh ex-gratia for the families of 54 students who died due to government negligence. He urged the government to protect the reputation of Gurukuls established by former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and to address the pending DA and PRC issues of government employees.