Three-acre land scheme could not become a success: Rajaiah

Ex-Dy. CM Rajaiah says he won’t leave TRS

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) legislator and former Deputy Chief Minister Dr. T. Rajaiah said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao launched Dalit Empowerment Scheme (Telangana Dalit Bandhu) as distribution of 3 acres land each to landless dalit families but it did not become a success as was expected due to non-availability of land. “The new scheme has been conceived as all the schemes implemented so far have failed to render 100% justice to the dalit community which comprises 20% of the Telangana society and nobody should harbour any doubt about either implementation or success of the scheme,” Dr. Rajaiah said addressing press conference here on Monday. He stated that he had presented his experiences on the status of dalits by spending nights in dalit localities and said that he is happy over the launch of Dalit Bandhu scheme. Stating that he was among the top five legislators of TRS in the implementation of various government schemes at constituency-level, he sought to know whether Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had ever thought of a scheme like Dalit Bandhu for the uplift of the community so far even in the States where the party had mass-base and was in power in the past.