‘Centre discriminating against Telangana’
The Hindu
Party leaders say coal blocks’ auction stopped in Odisha, Jharkhand
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Government at the Centre of discriminating against Telangana in the matter of coal blocks’ privatisation, irrigation projects and highways. After causing agony to the farming community, it is now targeting the Singareni Collieries workers.
Government Whip Balka Suman, Public Undertakings Committee Chairman A. Jeevan Reddy and MLC Egge Mallesham said here on Saturday that after pushing the farming community intro distress with new farm laws and with its approach on the procurement of paddy, the Centre was now trying to privatise Singareni coal mines although Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) was in profits.
They stated that the TRS had supported the coal miners strike in Singareni and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao wrote to the Prime Minister with a request not to auction coal blocks in Singareni area keeping in mind the future of workers and SCCL. However, there was no response from the Centre.