Hyderabad, Aug 13: Condemning the protest of YSR Congress Party
honorary president Vijayalakshmi on fee reimbursement at Eluru, Minister for
Backward Classes Welfare Baswaraju Saraiah termed the protest as political
stunt.
Talking
to media persons at the Congress Legislature Party office on Monday, the
minister claimed that fee reimbursement issue was solved yesterday with the
agreement between government and the managements of the colleges after Cabinet
sub-committee decided to peg the amount of fee reimbursement up to Rs 35,000
and official notification to this effect would be issued very soon. He said
that it is not proper on the part of Vijayalakshmi to continue her protest just
to gain political mileage.
Saraiah
also condemned the allegations leveled by YSRC party’s honorary president
Vijayalakshmi against the congress government and termed them as baseless. He
alleged that the YSRC party lacks vision and thoughts and asked Vijayalakshmi
not to impose politics on students for selfish gains.
Speaking
about separate Telangana, Saraiah claimed that the Telangana leaders were not
interested in getting political or other posts, except for the statehood for
the region. He also said that Kiran Kumar Reddy would remain the Chief Minister
up to 2014 general elections or until the separate States were formed.
The
minister also clarified that no cold war going on between the Chief Minister
and Union Minister for Petroleum S Jaipal Reddy on the gas allocation issue. He
denied the allegation that Jaipal Reddy failed to get Central funds for the
State. He claimed so far Jaipal Reddy brought about Rs 170 crore from the
Centres and was instrumental in getting sanction of funds for the districts in
the State.
- INN
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