Hyderabad: Deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu has said both BJP and BRS are secretly working together while pretending to fight each other.“It was the BRS govt that caused losses worth thousands of crores to Singareni. SCCL was deliberately weakened by preventing it from participating in coal block auctions. We will not allow vultures, brokers, or exploiters to enter Singareni. Singareni belongs to the people of Telangana,” he said.Speaking at a public meeting in Mancherial on Saturday after distributing compassionate appointment letters to 335 beneficiaries, he launched a sharp attack on both BJP and BRS, accusing them of deceiving the public through political theatrics.Addressing the issue of dependent employment in Singareni, Bhatti said that govt had accelerated the long-pending compassionate appointment process. He assured that applications of other eligible candidates would soon be examined and appointment letters would be distributed through similar public events.Bhatti asserted that “the present govt does not use power to facilitate exploitation”. Recalling his padayatra through Adilabad district when he was the CLP leader, he said he personally interacted with coal miners and understood their hardships.He reminded workers that during the padayatra he had promised that an ‘Indiramma Rajyam’ would protect Singareni as an asset of Telangana’s people.Vikramarka accused BRS and BJP of jointly conspiring against Singareni while pretending to oppose each other publicly. He claimed that coordinated statements by Harish Rao and Kishan Reddy revealed their political understanding.He said the people of Telangana had already punished BRS in the assembly elections for alleged corruption and mismanagement, and warned both parties against misleading workers and the public.
