The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana unit has decided to make use of Right to Information (RTI) as a weapon to expose the failed promises of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the last eight years.
As a part of the strategy, Karimnagar MP and state BJP unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and other BJP leaders raised over 100 queries under the Right to Information Act to the CMO, Principal Secretary’s Office, Finance, Revenue, ACB, Social Welfare, Panchayati Raj, Irrigation, Education and Health departments.
The BJP leaders sought to know the status of various promises and assurances made by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the legislative assembly, legislative council, upon visits to the districts and in 2014 & 2018 TRS manifestos.
Out of the hundreds of RTI applications filed by Sanjay on 28th of last month, there are queries related to the assurances made by KCR and how many of them are fulfilled. Besides, Kumar also asked about the expenditure on construction of Pragati Bhavan and the number of days the chief minister was present in his official residence.
A great deal of the questions were related to the filling of vacancies in various departments as suggested by the Biswal Committee and other employment opportunities provided.
Bandi also sought information regarding subsidies provided to farmers and various caste-based communities, besides construction and disbursement of double bedroom houses for the poor and pension benefits for the aged, widowed and physically handicapped. In total, information on 88 subjects was sought by the Telangana BJP chief.
Telangana BJP intends to hold the TRS government responsible for its failures in front of the public with solid proofs and is now seeking party cadre from districts and Yuva Morcha activists to file RTI petitions to mount pressure.
The BJP state unit vice president G Manohar Reddy had already sought answers on the crores of money spent by the state government in advertisements given to various media organizations across the country.
