Telangana Minister Ponguleti Throws Challenge to BRS Over Housing Schemes, Targets KTR

Hyderabad, May 25 (TNT): Telangana Revenue, Housing and Information & Public Relations Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy on Monday challenged the BRS over implementation of housing schemes and launched a sharp attack on K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) over criticism of the Indiramma housing programme.

Throwing a political challenge, Ponguleti said the Congress party would not seek votes in villages where Indiramma houses were not constructed and challenged the BRS not to ask for votes in villages where double-bedroom houses were not provided.

In a post on X, the minister alleged that KTR “who even tapped the phones of his own sister and brother-in-law” had no right to utter the name of Indiramma.

Defending the Congress government’s housing programme, Ponguleti said that within the first two-and-a-half years of coming to power, the government was constructing 4.5 lakh houses across the state.

He said beneficiaries of the Indiramma housing scheme in villages would explain the meaning of “Indiramma governance” and remarked that “those living in farmhouses” would not understand the realities faced by poor people.

Ponguleti stated that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy would launch construction of another 2.5 lakh Indiramma houses on June 1.

He further said that the State Cabinet at its May 23 meeting had decided to construct one lakh Indiramma houses in three corporations under the Hyderabad region.

The minister claimed that people who defeated the BRS in the Assembly elections, reduced the party to zero Lok Sabha seats and defeated it in strongholds such as Cantonment and Jubilee Hills were prepared to politically reject the party again in future elections.

“There is no need for you to separately announce political retirement,” Ponguleti remarked.

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