HYDERABAD: Recalling that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his decisions like demonetisation and GST and also supported the BJP-led NDA’s candidates for President and Vice-President posts, TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy wanted to know as to why Rao had not pressurised PM Modi for releasing funds for Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) project, “which could have transformed lives of lakhs of jobless youth in the state.”
Addressing a press conference in Shamshabad on Saturday, Uttam Reddy said the ITIR was approved by the then UPA government at the Centre. He said the ITIR project had all clearances and only needed implementation to create nearly 50 lakh jobs. However, even after three years, neither TRS government in the state nor BJP government at the Centre, moved a bit to implement the project. “To hide this failure, IT minister KT Rama Rao is writing letters to the Centre seeking clarity,” the TPCC chief criticised.