‘Congress will be ground to dosa batter’

“Our Telangana women will grind Congress into paste, just as the way they make dosa pindi. How dare Vayalar Ravi compare Telangana issue with making dosa and vada? If you do not want to give Telangana, say so. Why are you humilating the people of Telangana?”

This was the reaction of TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao to the comments of Vayalar Ravi that delivering Telangana is not as easy as making a dosa or a papad.

Chandrasekahra Rao said: “It appears Delhi leaders are going mad (pagal). That is the reason they are talking all rot.”

He was speaking at a meeting of TRS front organisation, APSRTC Telangana Mazdoor Union (TMU), as a part of the International Women’s Day celebrations at LB Nagar here on Wednesday. A large number of RTC women employees attended the programme.

What bothered him more was that while Delhi leaders were talking like mad, Telangana Congress leaders kept quiet, he said.

Referring to the role played by employees in deciding the fortunes of the political parties, he said he was sure that the employees this time would ensure that the Congress government is thrown out. He said when he was in TDP, he predicted that people would vote against TDP in 1989 and the yellow party faced the defeat. In coming elections, employees of Telangana would play a decisive role.

He assured the RTC employees in Telangana that the services of contract workers would be regularised and the contract system would be abolished once and for all after the formation of Telangana state. He demanded that the APSRTC management should not appoint men in the posts reserved for women, particularly driver posts.

Referring to state government’s budget allocations, Rao said the government which gets 90 percent of revenue from Telangana region is spending 90 percent of funds in Seemandhra region. This is sheer discrimination against Telangana. Sommokadidi, Sokokadidi,” he said.

The meeting adopted a resolution urging the Centre to ensure equal opportunities for man and woman in nation-building activities sine women constituted 50 percent of the population. The organisers said they would send a copy of the resolution to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and prime minster Manmohan Singh.