KTR asks Rahul Gandhi to face Telangana’s youth
At a BRS youth conference in Karimnagar, KTR renewed his challenge over Congress’s jobs promise. The official record, inconveniently, contains recruitment activity too.
The jobs debate reaches the spreadsheet stage.
K T Rama Rao has challenged Rahul Gandhi to come to Telangana and hear students discuss jobs, rather than carry “Chhatron Ki Goonj” from one state to another. KTR made the remarks at a BRS Students and Youth conference in Karimnagar on September 5, according to a report on the event.
KTR said Rahul Gandhi and the Congress had been associated with a promise to fill two lakh government posts in Telangana within a year, and demanded that Gandhi answer young people here. He also said the youth would go to Delhi if Gandhi did not come to Telangana. The exact original campaign document behind the promise was not available in the material reviewed.
The Congress government has a problem to answer, but the record is not “zero jobs”. Its own July 2024 statement said notifications had been issued for 28,942 posts. In September, it said appointment letters had gone to 30,000 selected candidates and recruitment for another 35,000 vacancies was under way. TSPSC records also show Group I recruitment moving from notification to certificate verification and medical examination.
That leaves a simple political question, not a magic number: how many posts promised were actually filled, and how many remain pending? The Congress government has yet to provide that complete public tally. Rahul Gandhi’s “Goonj” can begin with the spreadsheet.