Day 1,000. Still waiting.
BRS will mark 1,000 days of the Congress-run Telangana government with a week-long, ground-up campaign from September 2 — taking the ‘guarantees’ ledger to every village and ward, and asking where the delivery is.
On the thousandth day, the government’s guarantees ledger is still waiting for receipts.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi will launch a statewide mobilisation on September 2 — exactly 1,000 days after A. Revanth Reddy took office on December 7, 2023 — to press the Congress government on its own promises. K. T. Rama Rao told party leaders in a teleconference to run programmes at constituency, mandal, village and ward levels, with MPs, MLAs, MLCs and cadres in the field. The plan includes targeted meetings with farmers, women, students, youth, Dalits, BCs, tribals, auto drivers and government employees, and a social push aimed at younger voters.
At the centre of it: “Baaki Cards” — a debt ledger BRS says will list benefits Congress promised and hasn’t delivered. KTR’s line was blunt: the Revanth Reddy government after 1,000 days is an “utter flop show”, and the party wants that taken to people “on a large scale”. He also alleged massive pending tuition-fee reimbursements and failures on jobs and governance — BRS claims that will now be walked through, section by section, on the ground.
The Congress did promise six guarantees within 100 days — ₹15,000 per acre to farmers, ₹12,000 for farm workers, ₹500 gas cylinders, ₹2,500 a month for women, 200 units of free power among them — and published a thick manifesto. The BJP cheered from Delhi when it suited them and vanished when bills came due; the TDP has opinions on Telangana as ever, none backed by responsibility here. The state government, for its part, says it filled 70,000 jobs in its first year and has moved on fee-reimbursement guidelines. Good — bring the receipts. On day 1,000, slogans don’t count as implementation.
The week starts September 2. The Congress government in Telangana can explain its 100-day guarantees on day 1,001 — with dates, amounts and beneficiaries — or keep pretending the countdown clock is decorative.