BRS Govt Disbursed Rs 12,000 Crore For Minorities’ Welfare Since 2014: Telangana CM

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the BRS government has spent Rs 12,000 crore for the welfare of minorities in Telangana since coming to power in 2014, while the Congress government spent Rs 1,200 crore during its decade-long rule in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Had done

Addressing an Iftar party organized by the state government on Wednesday, Rao said Telangana has made rapid progress under the BRS rule.

“Drinking water, and electricity (problems) have been resolved. The problem of unemployment is also being resolved. We are moving forward but the country is moving backward.

The chief minister claimed that the state’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) would have been much higher if the performance of the central government was at par with that of Telangana.

“Before the TRS (now BRS) government came, the Congress (in undivided Andhra Pradesh) was in power for 10 years. During that time it had spent about Rs 1,200 crore on the welfare of minorities. Ever since the BRS government was formed, this government has spent Rs 12,000 crore in the last 10 years. This is an audited figure,” he said.

Rao said the country was passing through “strange times”.

“I request the elders, young brothers and thinkers that India is ours and we have to protect the country at all costs. Small difficulties come. But, if there is cooperation, we will fight till the end. This is a temporary phase. Justice will ultimately prevail,” he said.

Rao further said, no one can change the ‘Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb’ (a term used for the fusion of Hindu and Muslim cultures in the country).

Telangana ministers, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and tennis star Sania Mirza attended the iftar event.

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