Senior BJP leader and Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy has criticised Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for “misleading” people of the State with false promises.
He faulted the Chief Minister and TRS leaders for their claims on integrated steel plant at Bayyaram asserting that the Centre was firm on its stand on techno-economic feasibility of the project and hence, appointed an expert committee which ruled out the feasibility of the plant in that location. The Chief Minister and his family should take the blame relating to the Bayyaram plant.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Friday, Mr. Kishan Reddy said the Centre announced its stand after thorough examination of the report submitted by the expert committee under the aegis of the Steel Authority of India Limited within six months of formation of Telangana. Union Steel Minister too clarified about the issue in a written reply to a question raised in Rajya Sabha and even a committee constituted by the State Government had declared that the quality of iron ore available at Bayyaram would not meet the requirements of a steel plant. “The TRS leaders are indulging in meaningless criticism of the Central Government for political ends,” he said.
