Minister for Industries, IT and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao has alleged that the BJP Government at the Centre was acting with a vengeance against Telangana, perhaps worse that it would do with an enemy country, and creating all sorts of troubles.
At a time when the State was witnessing unprecedented floods in the Godavari Basin the Centre was completely unmoved and had not come forward even to release some funds to tackle the situation, Mr. Rama Rao said in a chat with newspersons here on Friday. At the same time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned ₹1,000 crore to Gujarat for taking up flood relief measures there.
He sought to know whether it was wrong to create assets by linking development programmes such as construction of Rythu Vedikas, Vaikunta Dhamams, Palle Prakruti Vanalu and others with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Minister asked whether it would be okay with the Centre to misuse funds as some States were doing by using them as wasteful expenditure.
