Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and development of northeast region G. Kishan Reddy, on Friday, once again offered to have a “public debate” with Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on the Centre’s financial assistance to Telangana State in the last eight years.
“Every sphere of development or welfare activities being taken up here is because of funding by the Centre. Can the TRS government tell people about how much money has been allotted to the gram panchayats as against the Centre’s release of funds?,” he questioned, at a press conference held at the party office on Friday.
Mr. Reddy, also Secunderabad MP, asserted that in the subsidised free rice of five kilos being issues since the COVID pandemic broke out in 2020, the Centre bears ₹28 as subsidy and the State government just ₹2. The ‘basti dawakhanas’ are coming up with Centre’s funds, the flagship irrigation project of TRS at Kaleshwaram is funded by the Centre’s financial institutions as also the new national highways and railway lines,” he claimed.
