TRS will return to power after next elections too, asserts KCR

Dalit Bandhu implementation in a phased manner, CM tells House

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has exuded confidence that the ruling party would retain power in the State after the next elections.

“We have our estimates. There is not an iota of doubt that we will continue. People will not leave the government, which is delivering,” he said. Mr. Rao dismissed the Opposition parties’, particularly the Congress, claims that Dalit Bandhu had been started with an eye on the Huzurabad bypoll.

The scheme, he said, should have been launched a year ago, but for the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the State’s finances. Now that the State was witnessing significant economic growth post COVID-19, the government thought it appropriate to launch the scheme. “Why should we lie? Huzurabad’s result is not going to change the government,” he said.