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Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka said a malicious sustained run of fabricated stories aimed astatine tarnishing him and besides the representation of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) was on, and cautioned the media to verify earlier besmirching idiosyncratic with the mendacious stories.
Mr. Vikramarka took beardown objection to the writings and the letters that followed, seeking probe by the BRS person T. Harish Rao and the contiguous effect by Union Minister for Coal surely reflected the desperation to harm him and the SCCL, which helium described psyche of Telangana.
He explained that mandatory tract sojourn conditions successful Singareni tenders were introduced based connected Coal India guidelines issued successful 2018 and CMPDIL norms successful 2021. Similar provisions beryllium successful tenders issued by NMDC, the Railways, Sainik Schools and ports crossed the country, helium said, adding that specified conditions were besides contiguous during the BRS regime. He besides released immoderate documents related to these.
False narratives, selective letters and misleading reviews painted an other representation that the norms were introduced by him aft the Congress authorities took over. This has damaged the morale of implicit 42,000 Singareni employees and astir 30,000 outsourcing workers.
The Deputy Chief Minister warned that specified reports appeared to beryllium serving vested interests attempting to summation power implicit Singareni’s assets. “While making allegations against the largest PSU of Telangana, they are forgetting that they are harming the State itself,” helium said.
He felt definite writings, peculiarly by a Telugu newspaper, were filled with “poisonous fabrications” and were being published deliberately to malign the State Government and scare distant investments.
Welcoming the request for transparency, Mr. Vikramark suggested that Mr. Harish Rao constitute to him seeking an enquiry into SCCL contracts from 2014, and helium would question the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for the probe erstwhile helium comes backmost from the USA. “Why is Harish Rao shying from seeking an enquiry from maine and approaching the Centre,” helium asked.
Defending the cancellation of the caller tenders, Mr. Vikramarka said the determination was taken to forestall further misinformation and baseless propaganda. The authorities is not lone transparent but besides wants to amusement it is transparent.
On the charges of Mr. Harish Rao that Chief Minister’ relaive Srujan Reddy was the beneficiary, Mr. Vikramarka reminded that Srujan Reddy was the son-in-law of K. Upender Reddy, who defected to the BRS from the Congress arsenic an MLA. He pointed retired that the bulk of Singareni tenders were finalised during the erstwhile government’s tenure.
Mr. Vikramarka said helium had not entered authorities to accumulate wealthiness oregon power, and said, “I volition not let vultures to prey connected ember mines built with the sweat of workers.”
