Congress Government in Telangana Fails to Honour a Single Election Promise; Public Fury Mounts

Hyderabad: Widespread public anger has erupted against the Congress government in Telangana over its wholesale failure to implement any of the electoral promises it made to voters. The party had prominently highlighted a range of welfare schemes for women and farmers in its election manifesto, but having come to power, it has betrayed the people by leaving every single promise unfulfilled.

Government employees in the state have not received their retirement benefits for over two years, and the High Court has now issued an order directing the government to clear all dues by April 9. The anguish over this prolonged denial has driven 86 former employees to take their own lives — a devastating human cost of administrative failure.

The fate of the much-publicised Mahalakshmi Scheme for women has been no different. The promise of ₹2,500 monthly assistance to women applicants under the scheme has come to nothing. The pledge to supply LPG cylinders at ₹500 was honoured no more than once or twice before quietly disappearing. Only the free bus travel component has been implemented in any meaningful way, and the fury among women over the broader betrayal of the Mahalakshmi Scheme is palpable and growing.

The promised monthly pension of ₹4,000 for senior citizens has also failed to materialise. A manifesto commitment to extend pension benefits to two senior citizens per family if both resided in the same household has remained a mere promise on paper. The assurance of ₹5 lakh to families without a home for housing construction has similarly yielded nothing — a pattern that mirrors precisely the manner in which Youth Congress deceived the people of Wayanad with promises of building homes for disaster survivors.

The Kalyana Lakshmi Scheme — which promised ₹1 lakh and 12 grams of gold as marriage assistance for Hindu girls — remains stalled. The Shaadi Mubarak scheme, which similarly promised financial assistance for the weddings of Muslim girls, has left applicants empty-handed, with widespread complaints that no money has been disbursed. The promised annual assistance of ₹15,000 for farmers and contract cultivators has also not been implemented — the government continues to disburse only the ₹12,000 provided under the previous government's scheme, which includes the PM-KISAN component.

Even the significant promise of land grants to veterans of the Telangana statehood movement has turned out to be a deception — reports confirm that not even a land survey has been initiated to give effect to this commitment.