KTR has no moral right to speak on housing: Ponguleti
Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy criticized BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao's comments on the Indiramma housing scheme. He defended the Congress government's housing initiatives, highlighting the construction of 4.5 lakh houses in two and a half years. Reddy also claimed that the people of Telangana have rejected the BRS party in recent elections.
- ▪Ponguleti Reddy questioned K. T. Rama Rao's moral authority to discuss housing issues.
- ▪The Congress government has constructed 4.5 lakh Indiramma houses in its first two and a half years.
- ▪Reddy stated that the BRS party was rejected by the people of Telangana in the Assembly elections.
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Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy wondered whether the BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao had the moral right to speak on the Indiramma housing scheme, when the BRS government utterly failed in the housing sector.In a post on social media platforms, Mr. Reddy took a jibe at Mr. Rao asking, “What will they understand who live in farmhouses?” Defending the Congress government’s housing initiative, he stated that within the first two-and-a-half years of coming to power, the State government was constructing 4.5 lakh Indiramma houses. The true impact of “Indiramma governance” could be understood only by visiting villages and interacting with beneficiary families who got houses, he said.Mr. Reddy also ridiculed Mr.
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