Warangal result a 100 percent positive vote for TRS: KCR

Maintaining that the TRS victory in the by-election to the Warangal Lok Sabha seat is a 100 per cent positive vote for his party, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today said Congress and BJP-TDP combine should stop their "blind" opposition towards the state government.
Reacting to the result, KCR, for whom the by-poll was seen a first major political test after the government assumed office in June last year, said the outcome is "100 per cent endorsement and positive vote" for his government.
"Our responsibility now grows. This by-election reflected what the people are thinking about us (our performance). We feel this is a complete support from Warangal people who had also backed us during the statehood agitation and now", he said.

TRS candidate P Dayakar won with a massive margin of 4.6 lakh votes, piling up a humiliating defeat on the Congress and BJP-TDP candidates who lost their security deposits.
Rao alleged that the Congress and BJP-TDP combine have been "blindly" voicing opposition to his government on various counts.
Citing the example of irrigation projects redesigning, proposal to construct a cultural complex in Hyderabad, proposal to construct a new Secretariat in the city and cleaning of Hussain Sagar lake, he alleged the opposition parties made "irrational allegations" aimed to see that the TRS government does not get good name.

He said improvement in power supply position, making seeds and fertilisers available to farmers, increasing social security pensions are among the achievements of his government.

"With an expenditure of Rs 33,000 crore, Telangana is the number one welfare state in the country," he said.
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Observing that the issue of support price for cotton farmers is with the Centre, Rao said the TRS MPs would fight on the matter during the winter session of Parliament.
Rao claimed he has a survey report estimating that TRS would win 80 per cent of the seats in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls, expected to be held in the next few months.
KCR further said he would undertake a 'bus yatra' to districts after the GHMC polls, Assembly session and Narayanakhed Assembly by-poll are over.

Noting that the substantial division of staff following Andhra Pradesh bifurcation is likely to be over in about a week, Rao announced that the contract staff would be regularised soon.
The District Selection Committee (DSC) programme for teachers' recruitment would be taken up.
Disclosing that the state government has declared 231 mandals in the state as drought-hit, the Chief Minister said a relief of Rs 1,000 crore is being sought from the Centre.
KCR said he has "immense faith in God" and would perform an 'Ayutha Chandi Maha Yagam' from December 23 to 27 involving hundreds of priests.
The priests to perform the 'yagam' are being requisitioned from three to four states, he said.

Referring to the criticism of CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy on the issue, he said the state government money is not being spent to perform the 'yagam'.