Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday said the Congress govt was making historic strides in job creation and has already filled up nearly 56,000 vacancies in the govt sector. Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud said the incumbent govt will fill up all the remaining vacancies, whether it is one lakh or two lakh. They spoke at a public meeting in Karimnagar as part of the MLC election campaign for party candidate V Narender Reddy from the graduates’ constituency.
While Uttam appealed to teachers and govt employees to realise that they were getting salaries on the first of every month, unlike the delayed salary payment even up to the 20th of the month in the previous BRS govt, Mahesh Goud said BJP removed a BC leader, Bandi Sanjay, from its state unit president’s post and vacated another veteran BC leader, Bandaru Dattareya, from the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, giving both to a Reddy, G Kishan Reddy.
“Whereas A Revanth Reddy vacated the TPCC president’s post and gave it to me, a BC leader. BRS helped BJP win eight Lok Sabha seats. The saffron party has eight MPs, including two Union ministers and 8 MLAs from Telangana. What did they bring to the state from the Centre? Congress has fulfilled the decades-old dream of BCs and SCs by conducting a caste survey and SC sub-classification. Vote Narender Reddy to victory,” Mahesh Goud said.
Reaffirming the Congress govt’s commitment to balanced regional growth, Uttam pointed out that north Telangana, particularly the districts of Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad, and Medak, suffered severe neglect under the previous BRS govt. He assured that new policies were being formulated to encourage investment, generate employment, and improve connectivity in the region to make it a hub of economic activity.
Calling the MLC elections prestigious, he appealed to graduate voters to support Narender Reddy, an academic with decades of service in the education sector. He also urged Congress cadre to work hard until the end of polling on Feb 27 to ensure maximum voter turnout and a decisive victory for the party.