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Rosaiah asks MLAs, MPs to focus on work

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Chief Minister appeals to representatives of all parties to cooperate and work for State’s progress

Chief Minister K. Rosaiah commences district-wise review meetings
‘MLAs, Ministers not paying attention on implementation of programmes’

PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

Taking stock: Chief Minister K. Rosaiah holding a review meeting on Mahabubnagar district in Hyderabad on Saturday. —

HYDERABAD: In a clear indication that the government can no longer neglect development and welfare programmes that had taken a backseat in the State for the last three months due to various problems, Chief Minister K. Rosaiah called upon all parties to focus on implementation of government programmes.

“We have already lost valuable three months. The pace of government programmes in the State had slowed down with MLAs and Ministers not paying adequate attention on their implementation. It’s time all parties cooperated to work for the State’s progress,” he said here on Saturday.

The Chief Minister commenced district-wise review meetings, starting with Mahabubnagar, in an exercise seen as not only an attempt to put the administration back on the rails after the prolonged turmoil over Telangana, but also assert his position. Without directly referring to the Telangana issue, Mr. Rosaiah said that none in the State could offer a solution. It could be resolved only at the national level and Centre was seized of the matter.

When TDP MLA Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy said that they were attending the review meeting after submitting resignations as MLAs, the Chief Minister said that they would continue to be legislators till their papers were accepted by the Speaker and they should discharge their responsibilities.

The meeting was attended by Ministers, MLAs, MLCs of Congress and Telugu Desam of Mahabubnagar, including MP Manda Jagannadham. TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao who is Mahabubnagar MP, did not attend.

Laying the road map for these meetings, he invited the leaders to highlight overall problems like drought, flood relief and rehabilitation, irrigation and power supply. He regretted that disbursement of scholarships and fee reimbursement for students was getting delayed due to lack of coordination between departments.

Speaking to reporters earlier, the TDP MLAs expressed concern that Telangana region in general and Mahabubnagar district in particular, were being discriminated in works.

Standstill

TDP senior MLA N. Janardhan Reddy said works on four irrigation projects in the district came to a standstill owing to meagre allocations. He also demanded lifting of cases against students registered across Telangana region. Minister for Information Technology K. Venkat Reddy criticised Dr. Janardhan Reddy for raising the Telangana issue at the meeting instead of focussing on development.

If the TDP was really not opposed to Telangana, he should prevail upon his party president N. Chandrababu Naidu to support a resolution to that effect in the Assembly, he added.

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