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BJP Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao connected Monday demanded that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy instantly merchandise Central funds to gram panchayats, alleging diversion of funds, and wide each pending dues.
Mr. Rao was speaking to the media aft gathering representatives of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Telangana State Sarpanchs’ Association, who called connected him astatine the BJP State bureau here. He claimed that the BJP has been consistently maintaining that the State authorities has been ‘diverting’ funds released by the Centre nether the 15th Finance Commission. As a result, sarpanchs person been incapable to wage for completed works, starring to ‘immense pressure’, with immoderate adjacent allegedly resorting to suicide.
He recalled that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, erstwhile helium was the State Congress chief, had promised justness to sarpanchs and the merchandise of pending bills. However, Mr. Rao said that adjacent aft two-and-a-half years of Congress rule, those promises stay unfulfilled.
Although caller sarpanchs person already assumed charge, the State authorities is ‘diverting astir ₹640 crore released by the Centre nether the 15th Finance Commission’, helium alleged, adding that this has triggered a terrible situation astatine the colony level.
As a result, gram panchayats are incapable to wage salaries to unit and sanitation workers and small-scale developmental works person travel to a implicit standstill, helium charged. Mr. Rao declared the BJP’s afloat enactment to the agitation launched by the Sarpanchs’ Association.
