Hyderabad: BRS senior leader T. Harish Rao on Thursday said the Congress government led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was indulging in large-scale corruption in the education sector, reckless borrowing, and excessive spending on luxury projects.
During an informal chat with reporters, Harish Rao claimed that the reason why the government had postponed the reopening of schools from June 12 to June 15 had nothing to do with the intervening weekend but had everything to do with a massive `2,000 crore scam.
“The postponement was because contracts related to uniforms, bags, notebooks, belts and other supplies were not finalised due to commission-related issues after a contract was issued to a Gujarat-based business,” Harish Rao alleged.
He also said that Revanth Reddy was indulging in “extravagant spending”, allegedly constructing a Rs 100-crore luxury building, Bodhi Pavilion, in the MCRHRD campus for himself. “His family has been handpicking expensive furnishing and Italian furniture for the building. The project was to cost Rs 7 crore as a VVIP guest house. Now Rs 17 crore is being spent just on high security fencing of the building,” Harish Rao said.
The BRS deputy floor leader also questioned the need for a new helicopter which was allegedly being purchased for the Chief Minister, which he said would cost Rs 5 crore a month. “If there is no money for fee reimbursement, farmers, payment of employee dues and social welfare, where is the money coming from for the luxury guest house and helicopter,” he asked.
On the rejection of the nomination papers of Telangana Congress in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh, Harish Rao said this was the result of an internal conspiracy and that “a close associate of Revanth Reddy was responsible for leaking information that led to the rejection of her nomination.” He said, “the Chief Minister who orders probes on anything and everything, should also order one to reveal the truth behind this episode.”
Harish Rao also doubled down on the warning that once the BRS returned to power it would scrap the Future City project. He alleged that several pharma companies which planned to invest Rs 70,000 crore in Pharma City had shifted to Sri City in Nellore. “I personally contributed 17 acres of land for Pharma City and was among the first landowners to support the project,” he said.
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