Telangana-speci„c manifesto for Lok Sabha polls released
Revival of the Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR) project in Hyderabad, remerging ve Andhra Pradesh villages into Telangana and a bench of the Supreme Court in Hyderabad are the major promises of the Congress party that released a Telangana-specic manifesto in Hyderabad on Friday.
IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu, who is also chairman of the Manifesto Committee released the manifesto along with All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Telangana Deepa Dasmunshi, Advisor to State government Vem Narender Reddy.
He said the ve villages of the Bhadrachalam mandal, transferred to A.P. after the State reorganisation in 2014, would be transferred back for the speedy development of the temple town of Bhadrachalam.
He said these promises would be fullled once the Congress comes back to power at the Centre. Residents of the villages Yetapaka,
Gundala, Purushottam Patnam, Kannegudam and Pichukalapadu on the A.P. border have been opposing their merger with the Andhra Pradesh since 2014.
The ITIR project was sanctioned by the Manmohan Singh government for Hyderabad as a part of the State bifurcation with the aim to create an IT corridor to create employment to lakhs of youngsters. The party also promised to take up the Rapid Rail transit system running parallel to the Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway as assured in the A.P. Reorganisation Act 2014.
Other promises in the manifesto include a railway coach factory in Kazipet, a steel factory in Bayyaram, an IIM in Hyderabad, Mining University, national project status to Palamuru-Rangareddy, a regional o¦ce of the NITI Aayog in Hyderabad, the establishment of new airports, a new railway line between RamagundamManuguru, four new Sainik schools, doubling of number Navodaya schools, National Sports University, among others.