Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao buys 32 automobiles for Additional Collectors.
A video of the occasion exhibits CM Ok Chandrasekhar Rao inspecting the autos and the automobiles have been flagged off on Sunday by Telangana Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar.
Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao has purchased Kia Carnival automobiles for 32 Additional Collectors at a price of Rs 11 crore, drawing flak from the opposition events of Congress and the BJP. This comes at a time when the state is reeling underneath a debt of round Rs 40,000 crore and a extreme Covid-19 pandemic.
A video of the occasion exhibits CM Ok Chandrasekhar Rao inspecting the autos and the automobiles have been flagged off on Sunday by Telangana Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar within the presence of the state Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and different officers at the CM’s residence in Hyderabad. The 32 Kia Carnival automobiles are estimated to price round Rs 25-30 lakh every.
BJP denounced the choice of the KCR authorities to current the luxurious automobiles to the Additional collectors of the state. “This splurge of public money is happening in the midst of the global pandemic while the poor and common people are dying out of debt burden of Covid hospitalization. How can Chief Minister Rao justify spending over 11 crores to buy 32 ultra-luxury vehicles?” Krishna Saagar Rao, BJP Spokesperson questioned the state authorities.
“How can a state show this kind of opulence when there is revenue deficit? BJP is asking it is what you are taking loans for?” Rao added. He added that the social gathering calls for quick roll again of the choice.
Congress additionally attacked the Chief Minister and referred to as out the “audacity” of the move.
“As such KCR has pushed the surplus state of Telangana into a debt trap state with a whopping debt of Rs 40,000 crore. They already have government cars in good condition,” Congress’s D Sravan Kumar reportedly stated.
Last month, state finance Minister T Harish Rao had requested the Centre to extend borrowing restrict of the State from the current three per cent to 5 per cent underneath Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act. He added that the expenditure of the State has elevated and the revenues decreased as a result of prevailing Covid-19 pandemic.
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