Actress Khushbu terms TRS as 'Anti-women'

Hyderabad, Nov 21: The TRS government was anti-women in every aspect and it was proved once again in its distribution of party tickets for the Assembly elections, alleged AICC official spokesperson and actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar here on Tuesday.

Listing out the reasons to dub the TRS government as anti-women, Ms. Khushbu said it had no women representation in its Cabinet and even the portfolio of women and child welfare was held by a male. Addressing a press conference here, she said women for KCR government meant only his daughter.

She also alleged a ₹220 crore scam in the purchase of Bathukamma sarees. The Congress leader stated that TRS had fielded only three women out of 119 Assembly constituencies being contested by it, while the Congress had given tickets to 11 out of 100 seats for which it has announced candidates so far.

The TRS government has done nothing for women in the last four years of its rule in Telangana, she alleged. Stating that Congress, if voted to power in the State, would give interest-free loans up to ₹10 lakh for women self help groups, the AICC spokesperson assured that they were also planning to sanction ₹5 lakh for construction of Indiramma houses by beneficiaries on their own.

Besides, the below poverty line families would be given nine essential commodities on ration (food security) cards against only rice being given now. Ms. Khusbhu also remarked that TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao was probably the only Chief Minister in the country who did not work from the Secretariat and ran the government either from his farm house or camp office.