HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has extended support to the ‘Chalo Secretariat’ protest march being planned by the unemployed youth and students of the Osmania University to press for the fulfilment of promises made to the two sections by the Congress government.
Representatives of the unemployed youngsters met BRS leader T. Harish Rao here on Saturday and requested for the party’s support to their protest march, stating that the CPI(M) had already extended support. Responding to their plea, Mr. Rao assured that his party would support the fight inside and outside the Assembly.
He explained to the youth that it was the previous BRS government that had got the Presidential Order modified to ensure 95% jobs to locals and their government had also filled 1.62 lakh jobs during the nine-year period. However, the Revanth Reddy government is carrying out a misinformation campaign stating that BRS had not filled any jobs, he alleged.
He pointed out that the Congress government had issued full-page newspaper advertisements to fill 2 lakh jobs in the first year of its coming to power, but during the last 20 months, the jobs filled had not crossed 12,000. Mr. Rao said the BRS government had, on an average, filled 16,000 jobs a year, while the successor government had not filled even half.
The BRS leader sought to know why AICC leader Priyanka Gandhi, who had issued a Youth Declaration before the Assembly elections, is silent on the issue.
Leaders like M. Kodandaram, Balmuri Venkat, Akunuri Murali and others are silent on the issue of filling jobs, Mr. Rao said, and demanded that the Congress government publish a white paper on the 60,000 posts being claimed as filled by it.
Published – June 28, 2025 11:48 pm IST
