Dattatreya slams KCR for not fulfilling election promises

Former Union Minister and BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya accused Telangana CM of not keeping his election promise of waiving loans of the farmers in the state.

Hyderabad: Former Union Minister and BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya on Tuesday accused Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of not keeping his election promise of waiving loans of the farmers in the state.

"KCR took a loan of Rs 4000 crore for the Kaleshwaram project, but could not fulfil his election promise of waiving loans of Rs 1 lakh each. Farmers have no money. I urge him to waive the loans taken by the farmers so that they can get new loans from the banks," Dattatreya said.

Continuing his tirade against the chief minister, the BJP leader said that KCR, during his election campaign, had also promised to give Rs 3000 each to the unemployed youth, but has not yet fulfilled it.

He further contended that KCR ignored Karimnagar, Ramagundam and Peddapalli regions of the state, while spending crores on the Kaleshwaram project over the last six years.

With an estimated cost of Rs 80500 crore, the Kaleshwaram Lifting Irrigation Project (KLIP) is the costliest irrigation project taken up by a state.

It will irrigate 738851 hectares of land in the districts of Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal, Medak, Nalgonda and Ranga Reddy.