One lakh by June? Show the ledger

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said in July 2025 that his government would fill one lakh vacancies by June 2026 — before completing two-and-a-half years in office, according to contemporaneous reports of his Nalgonda speech. The calendar has since done its part. The reconciliation has not.

On June 28 this year, the Chief Minister told a public meeting that “in just 30 months, we filled 70,000 government jobs.” That is the Congress government’s on-record claim. It is not a department-wise ledger. No list of appointments, no breakup by notification date, and no definition of what “filled” means — appointment order issued, joining completed, or merely recruitment concluded — were published with it.

An earlier number from March, reported from a written Assembly reply by Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, put recruitment “completed” at 67,763 posts, with 16,978 from notifications issued after the Congress took office and 50,785 carried over from recruitment processes initiated under the previous BRS government. That breakdown usefully admits the handoff; it also undercuts the neat round “70,000” without an audit trail to close the gap.

Opposition BRS has asked the obvious: publish the notification and appointment details behind the 70,000. The government’s own portal records a real, specific event — 1,370 Group-III appointment letters handed in January — which only proves how simple it is to cite verifiable pieces when they exist. What is missing is the statewide ledger that adds up to the promise.

For job-seekers, the only figure that matters is the one printed on an appointment order. For the BJP and the TDP, who discovered employment again now that they are counting Telangana for campaign lines, the arithmetic is easier: snipe from Delhi or Amaravati, contribute nothing to the audit, and hope nobody asks for the sheet. The Congress government in Telangana made the one-lakh-by-June pledge; it should now meet the standard it set — with the list, not a slogan.