BJP’s math changes, Congress’s dues don’t
Telangana BJP is on a two-day hunger strike over fee-reimbursement arrears. The figures swing from Rs 8,000 crore to Rs 12,000 crore depending on the mic. One thing that doesn’t change: a Congress government order that admits the liability exists and must be paid.
The government order acknowledges the liability; the arrears figures keep changing.
The Telangana BJP says it will fast for two days — from 10 a.m. August 24 to 3 p.m. August 25 in Nampally — to force fee-reimbursement and scholarship payments the Congress government has sat on. They’ve branded it “Feesula Bakai – BJP Ladayi” and promised to keep at it until the dues move. That is politics; the dues themselves are not.
On the record, a government order dated April 29 says all admitted dues up to and including 2025–26 remain payable under the existing mechanism, and that moving to DBT “shall not … extinguish” that pre-existing liability. Translation: the Congress government in Telangana owes students and colleges money and cannot paper it over with a new system.
The BJP’s numbers are less settled. In one breath the state president cites around Rs 8,000 crore; in another, Rs 12,000 crore. Student protesters have shouted Rs 10,500 crore. None of these totals is backed by a Finance or ePASS statement in the public record yet. The 2026–27 budget lists allocations — Rs 4,343 crore for scholarships — which is not a ledger of arrears cleared or pending.
The demand is straightforward. The Congress government in Telangana should publish department-wise dues by year and pay them — the order it signed already admits they exist. If it has quietly released money, it can show the release orders; if it hasn’t, it can explain why students and colleges are still waiting while the arithmetic varies by rally.