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The chargesheet arrived before the audit

The BRS has challenged Congress’s 1,000-day record. The documents show schemes, allocations and some reported releases — not yet a complete verdict.

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A large file marked chargesheet is pushed through a government-office window while a blank audit ledger sits beside scattered files on a desk.

The political chargesheet has arrived; a consolidated audit has not.

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The BRS has produced a chargesheet on the Congress government’s first 1,000 days. The record currently available produces something less dramatic: several schemes were launched or budgeted, while the government has not published one consolidated account of promises, payments, beneficiaries and pending cases.

BRS leader T. Harish Rao accused the government of reversing Telangana’s progress and said K. Chandrashekar Rao had handed over the state like a “ready-to-occupy house”. The BRS has also said Congress promised 420 guarantees, 13 declarations and six guarantees. Those are political claims; the chargesheet itself was not available in the material reviewed, and no Congress response to it was located.

The government record is more specific. Its documents report 45,81,676 Gruha Jyothi zero bills by July 15, 2024, and list ₹2,080 crore for the scheme in the 2025-26 Budget in Brief. A government order provides ₹5 lakh per Indiramma house and sets a first-phase target of 4.5 lakh houses. The government has also reported Rythu Bharosa releases and a crop-loan waiver for more than 25.55 lakh farmers, though those figures remain government claims requiring reconciliation.

So the BRS has a political chargesheet. Telangana still needs the audit. Congress has supplied neither one nor a convincing answer.

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