KTR takes on Centre, Owaisi praises. IT Minister KTR went to Delhi to meet Union Ministers and get funds for the pending projects in the state. On his visit ,he said "By meeting Union ministers, we want to tell the people that we continue to make sincere efforts to bring pressure on the Centre to secure pending projects and funds. But there has been no respons,"
He met Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and after the meeting, he said "The Defence department had said that they will give 96 acres of land for the construction of skywalk towards Rajiv road and another 56 acres of land towards Medchal, but there has been no response. The skywalk project started in Mehdipatnam was stalled due to the defense department’s constraints. We also asked for reserve land required for Golkonda, and Ibrahim Bhag link roads. We have been appealing regarding these issues to the Centre for the past 10 years without fail from our side. We hope they will respond positively this time."
Following this, MIM chief Owaisi showered KTR for taking up the issues of Hyderabad with the Union Government. He said "Thousands of people commute every day on the route (JBS-Falaknuma) and it has not been taken up by successive governments. The first priority should be the completion of already sanctioned routes. It's strange that the recently announced Kandukur-airport line is getting more attention than the Old City route."
KTR will be meeting Minister Harleen Deol. He said “We are meeting Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tomorrow. We will appeal for the expansion of the metro rail from Lakdikapool to BHEL and the metro from Nagole to LB Nagar. We have successfully completed many programs under SRDP. If three to four acres of land is provided by the Home Department at Rasoolpura, the SRDP project will be completed there. There was no response to Union Minister G Kishan Reddy’s repeated appeals in this regard. We are trying to meet Amit Shah in this regard."
He continued “The central government, which has given metros to about 10 small towns in Uttar Pradesh, should explain why it does not want to cooperate with the metro in Hyderabad. Kishan Reddy should tell why the Centre did not cooperate when there were floods in Hyderabad, why did it fund Gujarat or other BJP states,"
