Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has known as for statewide protests on Monday, August 17, alleging that the Congress authorities in Telangana was plotting to scrap the Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak schemes.
He claimed that the Congress was intentionally making an attempt to scrap these schemes that supported lakhs of poor households and was utilizing the Excessive Courtroom judgment as a pretext.
He questioned why the federal government, which pays large quantities to non-public attorneys to argue for the Hyderabad Catastrophe Response and Asset Safety Company (HYDRAA) or corruption circumstances towards ministers, acted negligently in defending the scheme associated to women’ rights.
The Telangana High Court had put a four-week keep on the 2 schemes on August 12 after the petitioner, Advocate Vijay Gopal, argued that the schemes weren’t backed by any legislation made by the state legislature.
Vijay Gopal dropped at the court docket’s consideration that, although the federal government had been directed to file a counter-affidavit throughout a earlier listening to, it had failed to take action even after 4 weeks.
Nonetheless, when the state once more sought extra time, the court docket handed the interim order, adjourning the following listening to by 4 weeks. The following listening to is scheduled for September 9.
KTR has known as for statewide protests at each constituency and mandal centre to “cease the conspiracy and expose Congress’s deceitful stance to the general public.”
He acknowledged that Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak usually are not simply welfare schemes however programmes tied to the long run and self-respect of poor households’ women in Telangana.
He mentioned that Okay Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) had recognised the heavy monetary burden of ladies’ weddings in poor households proper after Telangana’s formation and launched these schemes on October 2, 2014.
The scheme, which began with Rs 51,000 in monetary assist, was regularly elevated to Rs 75,116 after which to Rs 1,00,116. Throughout KCR’s tenure, monetary assist of Rs 13,000 crore was supplied to households of about 13 lakh women, KTR mentioned.
Even throughout extreme financial crises through the pandemic, the KCR authorities stood by poor women by Kalyana Lakshmi, he mentioned.
He mentioned that the identical Congress, which had promised a tola of gold for women together with Kalyana Lakshmi throughout elections, is now making an attempt to cancel the scheme as an alternative of strengthening it after coming to energy.
