Telangana polls: TRS manifesto draws oppn's ire

Hyderabad | Wednesday | 17th October, 2018

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"Instead of filling up those vacancies, KCR is promising unemployment allowance; this looks ridiculous and insulting and cheating the unemployed youth," he said. ""We feel KCR released a bogus manifesto, the same recycled manifesto of 2014 with percentage differences in the offers. "...sensing a humiliating defeat, KCR (as the Rao is popularly known) has copied all the promises (made in recent times by the Congress) and presented them as TRS manifesto", Reddy alleged. So, whether it's loan waiver, unemployment compensation...

just increments from the last manifesto which he has failed to deliver," Krishna Saagar Rao told PTI.CPI National General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said instead of giving unemployment allowance, the TRS government during its tenure spent a lot of money for temples and festivals, by "misusing" state budget.The TRS government also did not fill up two lakh vacant government jobs, Reddy alleged. "More than 4,500 farmers committed suicide due to the negligence of TRS government and not a single family got any assistance so far," he charged.BJP said it looks at the TRS manifesto as a "second attempt to deceive the people of Telangana" after the one before the 2014 elections.Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said the TRS' 2014 manifesto now "lies in the dustbin of KCR's residence, as he is work-from-home CM because none of those promises have been delivered..