HYDERABAD: The friction between PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana and chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is coming out in the open. Close on the heels of his showdown with the chief minister at the cabinet meeting on November 30, the PCC president on Friday sought to undermine the programmes that Kiran Kumar Reddy had taken up, saying that at ground level very few people knew what they were all about and what the objectives of the programme were. “If the programmes do not yield results, it will do more damage than good to the party,” he said. “It is not who the chief minister is that is important. What is important is that the Congress is in power and if the government does not keep the promises it makes, a lot of damage will be done to the party at the macro level,” Satyanarayana said.At an informal chat with mediapersons in the Assembly lobbies, Satyanarayana, who is also the transport minister, said that at the district level officers had no idea what Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu was all about. “Though the chief minister is going to town offering 15 lakh jobs, officers are at a loss not knowing how to keep the promise.”He hit out at Kiran Kumar Reddy on another count too. He said it made him sad to see no investor coming to the state. There was no industrial progress. “If there are no industries, how can there be more number of jobs?” he asked and wondered if anyone from a far-off place like Srikakulam would be willing to come to Hyderabad for a job that gave him a salary of just `8,000 per month.“Even private companies are not sure if Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu will yield the desired result. I spoke to GMR officials. They are not sure whether they will be part of the state government’s ambitious programme.”Satyanarayana went on: “All is not well with the government. The programmes taken up a few years ago are in a moribund state. The 104 service is not going to the rescue of people in rural areas in diagnosing ailments and treating them. The Congress government designed several programmes but people are yet to get benefits from them,” he said. “I have written to medical and health minister DL Ravindra Reddy to take steps to set right the 104 emergency services in rural areas,” he said.
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