Hyderabad, July 15 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday met Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H. D. Kumaraswamy in New Delhi and urged the immediate revival of the Cement Corporation of India (CCI) plant at Adilabad.

Rama Rao, who led a delegation of farmers and representatives of the CCI Sadhana Samithi, reminded Kumaraswamy of the assurance given by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in 2019 to revive the plant.

KTR said that instead of allowing this valuable public asset to be reduced to scrap, the Centre must act decisively. Spread over nearly 2,300 acres with an installed capacity of 4 lakh tonnes, the CCI plant can be revived with an investment of around Rs 2,000 crore, he said.

The BRS leader stated that if the Centre and the state government contribute Rs 250 crore each as viability support, the project can be restarted, creating employment for nearly 6,000 people.

He said just as the Centre extended a special package to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, Adilabad CCI too deserves similar support, adding that the BRS will continue its fight until the CCI plant is revived.

Meanwhile, in an interaction with the media in the national capital, KTR clarified that his entire struggle and battle are directed solely at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for the sake of Telangana.

He stated that he has no personal animosity towards Revanth Reddy; rather, he is questioning him because the decisions he is making are causing hardship to the people.

KTR remarked that Revanth Reddy has practically earned “four or five PhDs” in the art of diverting public attention. He questioned why the CM, who made it a daily routine to criticise them even 31 months after assuming power, repeatedly targets the BRS party despite dismissing it as a “corpse.”

KTR demanded to know what the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, was doing about the reckless statements made by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, asking whether he was indifferent to the matter. He lashed out at the Telangana Chief Minister for speaking so irresponsibly.

KTR expressed outrage, asking if any Chief Minister would ever suggest spilling blood in the fields or claim Hitler as their role model.

He alleged that the government was deliberately causing trouble for farmers over the Kaleshwaram project, taking out its anger on the farming community. Noting that Revanth Reddy had visited Delhi 76 times, KTR questioned whether the Chief Minister had managed to bring even 76 paise to the state.

KTR slammed Revanth Reddy for levelling allegations against them without any evidence. He challenged the accusers to produce evidence regarding whose phones were actually tapped, noting that allegations had previously been made claiming they had tapped the phones of film personalities as well.

He stated that Revanth Reddy is in a state of panic after seeing the results of four recent surveys. KTR explained that while these surveys clearly indicate the BRS will return to power in the future, his party had not conducted any such surveys itself.

–IANS

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