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Hyderabad, Oct 27 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Monday alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has betrayed Telangana auto drivers by failing to fulfill the promises made during the 2023 assembly elections.
Rama Rao traveled in an autorickshaw to reach the BRS headquarters, Telangana Bhavan, while another senior party leader and former minister T. Harish Rao also traveled in an autorickshaw in the city to understand their problems.
BRS leaders alleged that since the Congress came to power, 161 autorickshaw drivers have committed suicide. He demanded a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of autorickshaw drivers who died by suicide.
KT Rama Rao (KTR) reminded that during the 2023 Telangana election campaign, Rahul Gandhi had personally met and visited auto drivers, promising to set up an Auto Driver Welfare Board and provide annual financial assistance of Rs 12,000 to each driver. Two years later, none of those promises have been fulfilled.
KTR told media persons that he met Mashrat Ali, the same auto owner who had driven Rahul Gandhi during his campaign in Hyderabad two years ago. Mashrat Ali, who once owned two auto-rickshaws, has now been forced to sell both his vehicles due to financial constraints during the Congress rule. Today, he is a daily-wage auto driver, and hires an auto for Rs 400 per day to run home, the BRS leader said.
“Two years ago, Rahul Gandhi had traveled in Mashrat Ali’s auto and promised a better life for the drivers. Today, the same man has lost both his autos and is struggling to survive. He told me, ‘Sir, I was the owner then; today I am a driver. I used to earn Rs 2,500 a day, now I barely earn Rs 1,000. The Congress betrayed us. They promised a welfare board and Rs 1,000 monthly support. was, but we Didn’t give anything. They also took away whatever we had.”
KTR said that this heart-wrenching story shows the real face of the Congress government, which has failed every section of the society. “Rahul Gandhi should wake up from his deep sleep.
They promised delivery within 100 days – it’s been two years. Auto drivers are losing their livelihoods, and 161 people have already taken their lives because of the Congress government’s negligence,” KTR said.
He said that while Rahul Gandhi keeps giving big speeches about the poor, his own party’s government in Telangana is pushing working class citizens into poverty.
“Rahul Gandhi preaches compassion and equality, but his government betrays. When you cannot honor the promises made to poor auto drivers, you lose the moral right to speak about justice.”
He demanded that Rahul Gandhi take moral responsibility and ensure that his government immediately implements the Auto Drivers Welfare Board and Rs 12,000 annual assistance as promised.
–IANS
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