Minister for Municipal Administration and working president of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao accused the Central government of trying to financially cripple the Telangana government in the election season stopping funds for welfare programmes and also to purchase power.
In an informal chat with reporters here, Mr. Rama Rao feared that the Centre was rubbing its vengeance on some IAS officers to work against the BRS government, whose governance the Prime Minister and the BJP were jealous of.
The Minister made these controversial remarks when asked about TS Transco Chairman and Managing Director D. Prabhakar Rao claiming that funds were not being released by some officers for purchasing power. “Maybe a few officers are being influenced by the Central government, and I fear this is happening,” he remarked.
