Hyderabad: The BRS, as part of its preparations for a byelection for the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency, on Tuesday said the bypoll, as and when held, will turn into an opportunity for the people to teach a lesson to the Congress government which has not kept any of its promise to the people. The Jubilee Hills Assembly seat became vacant after the recent passing of the sitting BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath. Addressing a meeting of the BRS Greater Hyderabad minority cell meeting, senior party leader T. Harish Rao said all the minority communities were happy and satisfied when K. Chandrashekar Rao was the chief minister and now, they were upset at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for making false promises to them in the run up to the last Assembly elections. Harish Rao said, “The BRS government under KCR’s leadership introduced several welfare schemes for the minorities including Shadi Mubarak, Ramzan Tohfa, overseas scholarships, and introduced for the first time in the country honorarium for imams and mouzzeins.” The Congress, he said, promised a sub-plan for the minorities, allocate Rs 4,000 crore in the budget but allocated only Rs 1000 crore. Congress also said it will increase the honorarium from Rs 5,000 to Rs 12,000 per month. It also promised to hike overseas scholarship from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. But none of these promises have been kept, he added. “The Congress and its government claims that they are minority friendly but after 18 months in power, it does not have a single minister in the cabinet from any minority community. All the minorities should teach a lesson to Congress when the byelection is held in Jubilee Hills,” Harish Rao said.
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