Congress failed minority government by not keeping promises: Harish Rao

BRS leader T. Harish Rao distributed tools to several minority youth communities in Gajwel on Sunday. | Photo credit: By arrangement

HYDERABAD

Former minister and senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader T. Harish Rao alleged that the Congress had made several promises to minorities in the state as part of the Minorities Declaration, but had not kept any of them, including a promise to allocate ₹4,000 crore in the budget for minority development and welfare.

While participating in a program organized by Telangana Turaka Kasha Welfare Association in Gajwel on Sunday, he criticized the government for not fulfilling its promises to minorities, farmers and the poor. “Before KCR became chief minister, the minority budget was only around ₹ 300 crore, but gradually it was increased to ₹ 1,800 crore by the BRS government,” he noted.

The Congress party promised to increase the budgetary allocation to minorities to ₹4,000 crore, but today the government has barely spent only around ₹1,300 crore. He alleged that the minorities were not getting proper support from the Minority Finance Corporation and said that the Congress government had failed the minority communities.

Harish Rao said that KCR had given foreign scholarships to minority students on par with SC, ST and BC students. About ₹1,550 crore was provided as foreign scholarships to minority students during the BRS regime. In the last three years, the Congress government had provided only ₹14 crore for this purpose, he pointed out.

Published – 04 Oct 2026 21:24 IST