HYDERABAD: Addressing a public meeting at Chevella near Hyderabad, Kharge said KCR never spoke about the unity of secular parties to defeat the BJP. “BJP and BRS have now become friends. When there are some inside deal, they can’t speak against each other. I have heard that KCR has stopped talking against the BJP,” Kharge said.
Questioning Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s decision to not attend any meeting of the opposition alliance INDIA, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in Telangana alleged that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (who) calls themselves a secular party has secretly joined hands with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “BRS and BJP have now become friends. They cannot speak about it. Now, they will stop speaking here (against each other),” said the Congress chief.
“26 parties have united to remove the Modi government from power, but KCR didn’t attend a single meeting. He did not even ask whether all secular parties are coming together to defeat Modi.  BRS calls themselves a secular party but secretly have joined hands with the BJP. But we are bringing all opposition together,” the Congress chief said.
Addressing a public meeting at Chevella near Hyderabad, Mr Kharge said KCR never spoke about the unity of secular parties to defeat the BJP.”You call yourself a secular party here. But, you are in cahoots with BJP from inside there,” he said. Assembly elections in Telangana will be held in the coming months. The tenures of the Telangana Assembly will come to an end on January 16, 2024.  In 2018, K Chandrashekar Rao secured a landslide victory by winning 87 of the 119 seats.
The Congress president said PM Narendra Modi and the Union Home Minister question Congress party’s contributions to the country. Mr Kharge then went on to highlight the Congress party’s contributions, including unification of princely states and making of the Constitution after Independence, irrigation projects initiated during Nehru era, nationalisation of banks and the promotion of computers during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure as Prime Minister. At the public meeting, he released a poster of the Congress party’s ‘SC, ST Declaration’ – a set of 12 promises of the party – for the coming Assembly elections in Telangana.
“When Congress comes to power in Telangana, the 12-point SC/ST declaration will be implemented,” the top Congress leader said. According to the SC/ST Declaration, reservations for SCs will be increased to 18 per cent, while it will be hiked to 12 per cent in case of STs.
The party promised ₹ 12 lakh financial help to SC and ST families in the state, besides special reservation in government procurements. The Declaration also said reservations will be implemented for SC, STs in private educational institutions and in private companies availing incentives from the government.
“Amit Shah is coming tomorrow and he will ask what the Congress did in the last 53 years, give us the report card. Earlier, he used to say 70 years but now he has reduced it to 53 years probably after deducting the time of the BJP governments.Tell Shah what the Congress did after Independence. Who united Hyderabad with the country? Congress did. Who gave the Constitution? Who gave IIT, IIM, AIIMS, ISRO, DRDO, SAIL, HAL, BEL, ONGC? Congress gave all these and a strong, united country. One needle was not manufactured in the country. We set up big factories in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Kanpur. What big factory did the BJP set up but today they think they did everything?” Kharge added.
At the public meeting, Kharge also released a poster of the Congress party’s ‘ Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Declaration’. These  12 ‘declarations’ are promises of the party for the coming Assembly elections in Telangana. He said that the ‘declarations’ are just nomenclature, but the Congress is committed to implement all of them with all its might and the government’s power to bring the SC/STs, BCs and Micro OBCs on par with other communities.
Provide 18% reservation for SCs and 12% reservation for STs in Government procurement and public work contracts. Provide reservations for SC, STs in private educational institutions and jobs in private companies availing incentives from the government.
Provide a house site and Rs 6 lakhs for construction of houses, under Indiramma Pucca houses scheme to every houseless SC and ST family. Saturation approach will be followed to cover all the eligible families within five years.
(Bureau Report with Agencies Inputs>).

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