BJP alleges ₹8,600-cr. debt crisis in Telangana’s urban bodies

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State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party N. Ramchander Rao claimed that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and 123 municipalities successful the State person accumulated a full indebtedness of ₹8,600 crore owed to ‘commissions, corruption, and mismanagement’ nether some the erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the existent Congress governments.

He said GHMC unsocial has liabilities amounting to ₹5,000 crore and alleged that the anti-corruption systems person collapsed, pointing retired that though 1,500 officials were caught by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), nary enactment had been taken against them.

Presenting a PowerPoint study ‘12 Years of erosion of Urban Telangana (BRS & INC legacy)’ astatine a relation hallway successful Hyderabad connected Thursday, the BJP president sharply criticised the governments for ‘mounting debts and deficiency of disposable development, particularly successful municipality areas.’

“Urban Telangana faced “increased transgression rates, rising unemployment, and deteriorating infrastructure,” helium said and expressed superior interest implicit women’s safety, citing regular reports of assaults and suicides. New scams person surfaced nether the existent government, including ₹6.3 lakh crore worthy of onshore misuse nether GO 27, misuse of funds successful the sanction of Musi River beautification, and precocious commissions successful onshore dealings and authorities contracts, helium alleged.

The Congress authorities had failed to present adjacent 1 of its ‘six guarantees and implicit 420 commitments’, but had borrowed ₹80,000 crore, worsening the State’s fiscal situation. He besides highlighted the Chief Minister’s ain statements astir the authorities lacking funds adjacent to wage salaries and claimed that 40 employees had died by termination owed to pending status benefits.

The BJP person accused the authorities of practising vote-bank authorities and expressed interest implicit temple vandalism and the alleged conversion of authorities lands successful Hindu-majority areas into graveyards.

Mr. Rao said the Centre had contributed importantly to municipality improvement done schemes specified arsenic the AMRUT Mission, Smart Cities, National Highways, Railways, escaped ration programmes, and loans to 7.2 lakh thoroughfare vendors. He claimed that the Centre had released ₹12 lakh crore to Telangana and ₹9,512 crore worthy of infrastructure was developed successful past 11 years.

Appealing for nationalist support, helium said the BJP promises “honest governance, transparent administration, and existent development” successful municipalities and corporations.

Union Minister for Coal & Mines G. Kishan Reddy said the authorities is letting the existent perpetrators down the phone-tapping lawsuit spell scot-free by taking enactment lone against a constabulary serviceman and demoting him, contempt being alert of the gravity of the crime. He alleged that this was happening due to the fact that of a governmental knowing betwixt the BRS and Congress parties.

Party MPs, MLCs, Maharashtra Minister and Telangana municipal predetermination in-charge Ashish Shelar, and others were present.

Published - February 05, 2026 07:07 p.m. IST

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