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Industries and IT Minister Sridhar Babu said the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) person T Harish Rao’s connection that ‘Future City’ would beryllium cancelled if Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) came to power, was intended to discourage investments and deprive the younker of employment opportunities.
Terming the thought process arsenic “destructive politics”, helium asked whether Mr. Harish Rao wanted to endanger the investors and harm the aboriginal of Telangana youngsters for voting the BRS out.
Speaking to reporters connected Saturday (May 23), helium said radical defeated the BRS successful the Assembly elections, reduced them to zero seats successful the Parliament elections and rejected them again successful section assemblage and municipal polls. “Yet, they proceed to indulge successful inexpensive and blackmail politics,” helium said.
Mr. Sridhar Babu alleged that BRS leaders were yet to retrieve from their electoral decision and were making irresponsible statements astir scrapping the projected “Bharat Future City” with an volition to harm Hyderabad’s planetary representation retired of jealousy.
The Minister said that portion the Opposition parties person each close to connection constructive criticism, they should not indulge successful attempts to derail improvement projects for governmental gains. “Politics is temporary, but the interests of the State are permanent,” helium remarked.
The Minister reminded that the BRS had earlier attempted to obstruct the Musi River rejuvenation task and was present conspiring against the Future City initiative.
Describing Bharat Future City arsenic a landmark initiative, Mr. Sridhar Babu said the task was not confined to a portion oregon a government, but aimed astatine strengthening Telangana’s planetary marque representation and economical future. “In the coming years, Bharat Future City volition go an motor of maturation for Telangana’s economy,” helium said.
“Suppose an planetary institution plans to put hundreds of crores successful Telangana. If Opposition leaders publically accidental they volition cancel the task aft coming to power, won’t those companies determination to neighbouring States?” helium asked.
Drawing comparisons with earlier infrastructure projects, Mr. Sridhar Babu recalled that projects specified arsenic the Shamshabad International Airport and the Outer Ring Road, initiated during the tenure of erstwhile Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, were erstwhile criticised by the Opposition parties but aboriginal proved instrumental successful Hyderabad’s development.
He besides pointed retired that the Software Technology Park inaugural launched by the Congress authorities successful 1992 and the improvement of HITEC City initiated during the tenure of N. Chandrababu Naidu were continued and expanded by successive governments alternatively than scrapped.
“Just arsenic HITEC City transformed Hyderabad into a planetary IT hub, Bharat Future City is envisioned arsenic a futuristic task for the adjacent procreation successful the epoch of Artificial Intelligence,” helium stated.
The Minister said Telangana could not spend to lag down cities similar Bengaluru and Chennai successful attracting investments and technology-driven industries.
Sridhar Babu besides clarified that the authorities had not cancelled the Pharma City task and had already informed the High Court accordingly. He said a Life Sciences Park would beryllium developed connected the lands acquired for Pharma City.
