Cong Govt has turned villages into orphans

Sirigiripuram (R.R.Dt), Dec 13, 2012: Charging the Congress Government with running away from the responsibility of conducting local body elections for fear of losing them to the YSR Congress Party, Smt. Sharmila said the villages and hamlets have become orphans in the present dispensation.

Interacting with the villagers of the Sirigiripuram in Maheswaram constituency of Ranga Reddy district at a Rachchabanda programme on Wednesday, she said the administration in the villages has gone astray as the Government abandoned them to their fate.

Without elections to the village Panchayats for so many years and with no official paying attention to the villages, the people are being left high and dry with no solution in sight for their problems. “The government is running away from conducting local body elections as it fears that YSR Congress may win over all the seats,” she said.

Dr.YSR wanted to turn all hamlets and tribal Tandas into Panchayats but the Government has turned them into orphans, Smt. Sharmila has charged.

She made the remarks when the women complained to her about the village problems remaining unsolved in the absence of local body elections.

She also found fault with Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy for making empty promises over   generating 15 lakh jobs for the youth and fetching in Rs. 6 lakh Cr investments into the state.

Saying the people have realized that these were empty promises, Smt. Sharmila observed the Government has not created even 1.5 lakh jobs while the power crisis has been forcing the industries to down shutters resulting in unemployment.