TS opposition stages walkout over promising 1.12 lakh jobs

Hyderabad, Nov 15: The Telangana opposition parties Congress, BJP, TDP and CPM members staged a walkout from the State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday protesting against what they called the failure of the government in fulfilling its promise on jobs to unemployed youths.The opposition members including K Laxman (BJP), Rammohan Reddy (Congress), S Venkata Veeraiah (TDP) and Sunam Rajaiah (CPM) who all took part in the short discussion on filling vacancies in government departments and unemployment issue , demanded that the government issue a calendar indicating its year-long plans for the recruitment process.The House witnessed heated exchanges on the issue. Both Minister for Finance Etela Rajender and Minister for Irrigation T Harish Rao strongly defended the stand of the government on its commitment to give 1.12 lakh jobs.