TPCC working president Ponnam Prabhakar has blamed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for making the local bodies powerless by concentrating all the powers with ‘one family’ and appealed to the people to teach a lesson to them in the Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituency (MPTC) and Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency (ZPTC) elections. In a statement here, he said powers of local bodies have been diluted and elected representatives are being treated with disrespect, and Congress was the only party that strengthened the local bodies. Release money“We will release money directly to the local bodies once we come to power,” he said and appealed people to vote for Congress candidates. He also blamed the TRS government for the reduced reservations for Backward Castes in the local bodies. A government that can’t conduct examinations properly has no right to rule, he said.

Source: The Hindu May 05, 2019 18:00 UTC