Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has come down heavily on Union Minister Kishan Reddy for his comments that it was not possible to establish a steel plant at Bayyaram and called for a protest against the Centre’s stand on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, party MPs Nama Nageswara Rao and Maloth Kavitha and Minister for Transport Puvvada Ajay Kumar alleged that the BJP Government was doing grave injustice to Telangana, particularly the erstwhile Khammam district, by not keeping the promises such as setting up a steel plant at Bayyaram made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.
In addition, the Centre had also snatched large chunks of land mass in the form of seven mandals and one of the cheapest hydel generation stations – Lower Sileru – although they were not part of the bifurcation Act. “The Centre had shown great urgency in transferring seven mandals of combined Khammam district in the name of Polavaram project and gave away 460 megawatt Lower Sileru without any reason,” they pointed out.
