Ministers, MLAs grabbing limelight for welfare schemes: public representatives

Claim this may affect their goodwill and future political opportunities

Public representatives of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) are annoyed with the Telangana government that their participation in government schemes has been reduced drastically and this may impact their goodwill and future political opportunities.

Wherever there is an opportunity for their involvement to take some credit for the government welfare schemes, Ministers and MLAs are grabbing them and relegating them to the background. This was one of the main grouses that the party representatives from districts, particularly ZPTCs, MPTCs, sarpanches apart from chairmen of various corporations, have with the government.

Their displease stems from the fact that most of the financial benefits of government’s welfare programmes are directly going into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries and they can’t even claim some role in it. Their grouse was brought to the notice of the party high command during the ongoing review meetings of the constituencies being held as a precursor to the party plenary on October 25.