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HYDERABAD
The Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has intensified its protestation against the steep summation successful TGSRTC metropolis autobus fares. Party leaders led by its moving president K.T. Rama Rao travelled successful RTC buses to the Bus Bhavan from antithetic places successful the metropolis connected Thursday to conscionable the Managing Director of the Corporation with the rollback demand.
In a memorandum submitted to Vice Chairman and MD of TGSRTC Y. Nagi Reddy present connected Thursday, Mr. Rama Rao demanded an contiguous withdrawal of the accrued fares. He urged the Congress Government to rollback the fare hike, stating that it had burdened citizens of Hyderabad heavily. He further wanted the authorities to resoluteness the RTC’s halfway problems and urgently fulfil the promises made to its employees.
Alleging that the metropolis autobus fare hike was a deliberate effort by the Congress Government arsenic portion of its plans to privatise the nationalist transport corporation, Mr. Rama Rao said the larger program was to monetise the assets of TGSRTC, chiefly land. He asserted that the authorities was actively trying to cripple the RTC financially.
When the BRS leaders sought to cognize the presumption of dues from the authorities to the Corporation during their gathering with the RTC MD, the second informed them that ₹1,353 crore related to the Mahalakshmi escaped autobus strategy was pending. The BRS leaders, successful turn, stated that the erstwhile (BRS) authorities had released ₹9,246 crore arsenic a assistance to the RTC.
Before the BRS leaders travelled to the RTC office (Bus Bhavan) successful RTC buses from antithetic places interacting with passengers astir the fare hike, dense constabulary deployment was made astatine the residences of cardinal enactment leaders, including MLAs and others, preventing them from coming out, but relented later.
Speaking to the media, aft gathering the RTC MD, Mr. Rama Rao questioned the rationale down the hike and said they invited the escaped autobus question for women but the fig of buses indispensable beryllium increased. The RTC was collecting treble the fare from men to offset the escaped question for women. It was cruel to springiness escaped work with 1 manus and summation the summons terms with the other, helium remarked. Mr. Harish Rao said the authorities had accrued autobus fares 5 times during the past 22 months.
Senior leaders of the enactment T. Harish Rao, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, T. Padma Rao Goud, P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, K.P. Vivekanand, D. Sudheer Reddy and others travelled from antithetic places to the Bus Bhavan, wherever they were arrested with lone a fewer of them getting support to conscionable the MD.
