BRS flays Kharge for celebrating ‘samvidhan’ while disregarding rights

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has criticised the ruling Congress party for flaying the Constitution by arresting the unemployed youth and students before and during the visit of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge to Hyderabad on Friday to celebrate “samvidhan”.

Working president of the party K.T. Rama Rao said the government action of arresting the unemployed youth and Osmania University students was a stark reminder of the Congress Government’s utter disregard for democratic rights. He sought to know whether the Congress leadership including Rahul Gandhi had forgotten the job calendar, promised before the Assembly elections, after coming to power in the State.

The tall claims of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy that the door of the Secretariat would always be open in the ‘Indiramma Rajyam’ were proved repeatedly wrong with the arrest of the unemployed youth umpteen times during the last 19 months. While several youth were arrested on Thursday ahead of Mr. Kharge’s visit, those who were on way to the Secretariat and to Kharge’s public meeting to explain their woes were also arrested on Friday.

The Congress Government had not filled even 10,000 jobs by issuing fresh notifications and it could only complete the recruitment process for 60,000 jobs for which notifications were issued and tests were conducted during the previous BRS rule itself. He demanded that the government release all those who were arrested unconditionally.

Senior leaders of the party Koppula Eshwar, S. Niranjan Reddy and S. Madhusudana Chary too condemned the arrests of unemployed youth and students.

Speaking to newspersons separately, they criticised the comments of Mr. Kharge on social justice, reservation of backward classes. They alleged that the Congress government had failed to implement even one promise made as part of the SC, ST Declaration and also 42% reservation to BCs.