Hyderabad: Telangana individuals gave a transparent verdict within the just lately concluded polls “to liberate themselves from the ten years of repression”, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan mentioned Friday.
“Their (voters) message is clear and loud. I appreciate the collective wisdom of the people. Telangana is breathing fresh air of freedom and liberty now. Telangana is liberated from autocratic rule and dictatorial tendencies. The people’s verdict unequivocally stated that it would not tolerate any repression,” the governor mentioned in her handle to the MLAs and MLCs on the joint session of the Telangana legislature.
Led by Revanth Reddy, the Congress stormed to energy on 3 December after it changed the two-term Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities of Okay. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR).
“(The election) verdict became a cornerstone for civil rights and democratic rule. The iron barricades that divided rulers from the people have been dismantled. I feel proud to say that the glass houses and obstacles have been removed and the true people’s governance has begun,” Soundararajan mentioned in what’s seen as reference to the iron gates, barricades across the Pragathi Bhavan which had been torn down after Revanth Reddy took over because the CM final week.
The speech copy is drafted by the state authorities which the governor reads out within the Home, as per the custom.
By the way, the brand new chief minister had additionally taken an analogous line in his first speech because the chief minister. “The barricades that distanced the Telangana society and people from the government are being demolished now and the gates are open for the people to come with their grievances,” he had mentioned on the L.B. stadium.
In the previous couple of years of KCR’s rule, ties with the Raj Bhavan went south as Soundararajan was in disagreement with a number of of the BRS authorities’s proposals.
There have been a number of episodes of frictions such because the rejection of names forwarded by KCR for MLCs underneath Governor quota and payments withheld searching for clarifications. BRS leaders had accused the governor of “operating like a BJP agent/leader.”
Soundararajan described the brand new Telangana cupboard “a judicious combination of experience and the new, led by a young leader.”
“Our government is taking steps to give freedom, liberty, equal opportunities, and social justice to people along with making governance within the reach of each and every citizen,” she mentioned.
“The CM made it abundantly clear that in a democracy, the rulers are the people’s servants, and they are not feudal lords,” the governor mentioned, referring to Praja Vaani, a public grievance redressal programme reinstated by CM Revanth.
All through his ballot marketing campaign this 12 months and earlier, Revanth had accused KCR of functioning like a ‘dora’ (feudal lord).
The Governor talked about the statehood wrestle and the UPA authorities creating Telangana state in 2014. “On behalf of four crore Telangana people, the present (state) government thanks Sonia Gandhi, the then UPA chairperson, for the key role she played in the process of creating Telangana,” she mentioned.
Stating that the brand new authorities will stand by every promise made to the individuals, the governor asserted that CM Revanth Reddy “signed the file giving legal sanctity to the six (Congress’s poll time) guarantees soon after his swearing in.”
“Within 48 hours of entering into governance, my government has implemented two out of six guarantees. This stands as proof of its commitment,” Soundararajan mentioned, referring to the launch of free journey for ladies in state-run buses and climbing the Rajiv Arogyasri medical insurance protection for the poor to Rs 10 lakh.
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‘Bad governance — financial mess’
The governor remarked that owing to the earlier regime’s dangerous governance, the facility utilities are in a deep monetary disaster with a staggering debt of Rs 81,516 crore.” “They have incurred losses of Rs 50,275 crore.”
Equally, the Civil Provides Company has Rs 56,000 crore as debt and Rs 11,000 crore as losses. “Each and every department had incurred huge debts. Loans raised indiscriminately from every corporation have pushed the state into a financial mess and crisis. The entire fiscal discipline is destroyed. There was no financial prudency.”
Soundararajan mentioned that her authorities now “is focused on strengthening the derailed financial situation.”
“We will place before the people the financial condition of each and every department by releasing white papers to show real facts.”
The current administration is dedicated to decentralising improvement in Telangana and is “planning to divide the state into three zones with Hyderabad because the centre, she mentioned.
One zone shall be Hyderabad metropolis, falling contained in the Outer Ring Highway, the second zone the world between the ORR and the proposed Regional Ring Highway, and the third shall be all that’s exterior to the RRR.
As for the promise of inquiry into Kaleshwaram irregularities, corruption, high quality points in building of Medigadda and Annaram Barrages, the governor mentioned an motion plan shall be set in.
Soundararajan mentioned an train has been initiated to cleanse the Telangana State Public Service Fee and that steps shall be taken to refill two lakh authorities job vacancies inside one 12 months.
Bhumata Portal, “which will be transparent and solve all land-related issues”, shall be launched instead of the controversial Dharani introduced in by KCR.
A land fee to guard authorities lands and stringent measures to eradicate the usage of banned medication and narcotics are the opposite assurances the governor made to the general public on behalf of the Revanth Reddy-led Congress authorities.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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