Gram Panchayat worker attempts suicide, KTR criticises Congress-Telangana Today

“It is shameful that the Congress government has pushed its employees to such extremes. The Chief Minister, who is causing emotional stress to the employees, should immediately apologise,” KTR said.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao strongly criticised the Congress government for its non-payment of salaries to employees, which has led to tragic suicide attempts. He said in a series of such incidents, a gram panchayat employee of Allipur village in Bijinepalli mandal of Nagarkurnool district attempted to commit suicide by drinking pesticide after the government failed to pay him salary for the last seven months.

Reacting to the incident, Rama Rao expressed his grave concern and criticised the Congress government for its incompetence. “It is shameful that the Congress government has pushed its employees to such extremes. The Chief Minister, who is causing emotional stress to the employees, should immediately apologise,” he said, pointing out that despite promising to ensure timely disbursement of salaries during the assembly elections, the Congress had failed to do so, leaving salaries unpaid for several months.

The BRS working president also referred to similar incidents like the suicide of Wasim, a data typist at Suryapet Government Hospital who had not received his salary for three months, and the recent videos of a gatekeeper at Yellampalli Project begging minister D Sridhar Babu for his salary after six months of non-payment. He urged the state government to pay the pending salary immediately.

Senior BRS leader T Harish Rao also termed the non-payment of salaries a tragedy. He mocked Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for not fulfilling his promise to pay salaries on time and demanded an immediate solution to the outstanding salaries of garbage workers and panchayat employees.