Nursing hopes that the Supreme Court will nullify the process of bifurcation of the State, the Jai Samaikyandhra Party, headed by former Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, has promised proper implementation of the schemes of the outgoing Congress Government, apart from listing out a few new ones in its election manifesto released here on Sunday.
If elected to power, the party would draw up sub plans for Backward Communities and minorities on lines of the plans for Scheduled Castes, Reddy said at a press conference here on Sunday.
He dismissed claims by the YSR Congress Party that the welfare schemes, started by the Congress Government when YS Rajasekhara Reddy was the Chief Minister, were discontinued under his leadership. Reddy said that in fact the implementation of each and every welfare scheme was streamlined and made more systematic. “The Arogyasri is now being taken up by more Government hospitals enabling their development. More houses were completed under the Indiramma housing programme than was done earlier,” he said.
He said the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the case on bifurcation on May 5, and the party was trying to convince the Apex Court to complete the hearing before the Appointed Day or put off the Appointed Day till the hearing is completed. Bifurcation would affect the people of Telangana more as they would face power shortage in the immediate future and as upper riparian State, the new State of Telangana, would lose the right to utilise the Krishna waters for the completed projects such as Bhima and Nettempadu, the former Chief Minister pointed out.
Reddy said the promise of writing off farm loans was unrealistic, as such a move could only be taken up by the Centre. His Government would promote use of solar power in farms and residences, he added.