Telangana Chief Minister KCR Announces Benefits Worth Rs 10L To 2,000 Families Belonging To His Village

K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Chief Minister of Telangana has raised some eyebrows after he made a rather unusual announcement on Monday.

During his visit to Siddipet district, the CM, popularly known as KCR, announced financial assistance of Rs 10 lakhs for some 2000 families in Chintamadaka village, which is his native place.

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According to the Chief Minister, the financial assistance will be given to the villagers for self-employment.

“It is my duty to help you all. Every villager should get benefited. Everyone has to be healthy and wealthy,” KCR was quoted as saying.

According to estimates, KCR's financial assistance to residents of his native village and other infrastructure projects he announced is expected to cost the state exchequer about Rs 400 crore.?

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This, however, has not gone down well the opposition parties in the state who accused the CM of behaving like a sarpanch.

“KCR is chief minister of all the manuals and districts in Telangana. But he is speaking like a sarpanch and offering special schemes like Rs 10 lakh to each family in Chintamadaka village. We are not against this scheme but we demand that the Rs 10 lakh scheme should be given to all the families in the state,” BJP national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao told ANI.

This is not the first time KCR has come under criticism for spending public money for his whims and fancies.?

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The Chief Minister of India's youngest state was in the news earlier this year after he sanctioned Rs 400 crore for a new Secretariat building and another Rs 100 crore for a new Assembly building, both of which are 'Vastu compliant'. KCR is known to be a staunch believer in Astrology.

He is said to have been avoiding the old secretariat as it has Vastu dosha, which he blamed for his government not performing well in its first term.

KCR who led the campaign which led to the formation of Telangana, had during his first term gone on a donation spree at various temples. KCR had donated public money to temples in the form of gold and his justification was that he had promised to do so if the state was formed.

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In 2016 KCR had offered 11 kg gold ornaments worth Rs 3.7 crore to goddess Bhadrakali of the famous Warangal temple.?

In February 2017, he had offered gold ornaments worth Rs 5 crore including a lotus-shaped necklace weighing nearly 15 kilos and a five-kilo collar to Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati.

And just two days later he visited another shrine, the Kuravi Veerabhadra Swamy temple in Mahabubabad district where he offered a 'bangaru meesalu' (gold mustache) weight 20 grams, cost about Rs. 75,000. In June 2018 KCR made an offering of a nose stud at the Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada.?