Bayyaram plant, 15k jobs KCR’s poll promise, not ours: Kishan

Hyderabad : Days after ruling out the chances of Centre setting up a steel plant in Bayyaram, Union tourism minister G Kishan Reddy challenged the TRS government to take up a feasibility study on Bayyaram plant.

Kishan Reddy said at a press conference in Delhi on Friday that CM K Chandrasekhar Rao had promised in 2018 that the state government will establish the plant in Bayyaram and that it would generate 15,000 jobs. “TRS working president KT Rama Rao also said the same. Instead of sticking to their promise, why are they blaming us,” he sought to know.

The Union minister said the AP Reorganisation Act 2014 clearly mentions about feasibility study of the plant but not its establishment. “Experts said the raw materials available in Bayyaram are of poor quality and that a plant cannot be set up there. It was the TRS which had promised to establish the plant. Why haven’t they set up the plant till now,” he wondered.

Kishan Reddy also said when YS Rajasekhara Reddy was chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh, there was a report that Bayaaram steel plant was not feasible. "Why did KCR not raise his voice at that time," he asked.

Taking a dig at KCR’s ‘Telangana model’ for the country, he asked: “What is this model? Not coming to the secretariat, not implementing the poll promises, not allowing ministers to function? Why would people in other parts of the country welcome you. ”

The minister criticised burning of effigies of the central government and said if effigies had to be burnt, they should be of the TRS government for failing to keep the poll-eve promises.