BRS to introduce Private Member Bill in Assembly seeking legal backing to six guarantees

BRS plans a Private Member Bill to demand legal backing for six unfulfilled guarantees by the Congress government in Telangana.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) will introduce a Private Member Bill during the ensuing Budget Session of the Assembly to expose the Congress government’s “betrayal of people” and to demand legal backing for the six guarantees promised before the 2023 Assembly elections.

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao announced after a joint orientation meeting for the party’s MLAs and MLCs here on Tuesday. The Congress party came to power by promising six guarantees to people but had failed to honour the commitments, he said and reminded that Congress leaders had publicly promised provision of legal status to the guarantees in the very first Cabinet meeting after coming to power.

However, the government had failed to fulfil most of the promises even after two-and-a-half years in office. He stated that the proposed Private Member Bill was intended to hold the Congress government accountable and ensure that the guarantees promised to the people including benefits for women, elderly citizens, persons with disabilities, students and farmers were implemented in a legally binding manner.

On the budget session, Mr. Rama Rao said the government would be presenting its third budget, making this session extremely important as nearly half of its tenure had already passed. The time given by people for the implementation of electoral promises had effectively elapsed, yet the government had failed to deliver.

During the meeting, BRS leaders deliberated on strategies to expose the government’s failure in implementing its promises and to raise issues related to governance failures and alleged excesses of the ruling party. Senior party leaders including S. Madhusudana Chary, T. Harish Rao, Banda Prakash, Talasani Srinivas Yadav and P. Sabitha Indra Reddy also spoke at the meeting.

Mr. Rama Rao criticised the government for not constituting key Assembly committees even after more than two years in office. He pointed out that there were no Select Committees, Standing Committees and Petitions Committees and even the post of Deputy Speaker remains vacant, reflecting the government’s disregard for legislative institutions.