Telangana liberated from 10 yr autocratic rule: Guv

Hyderabad: Observing that the people in Telangana gave a clear verdict to liberate themselves from 10 years of repression in the recent assembly polls, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Friday said the government will stand by each and every promise it has made to people.

In her address to the joint session of the legislature, the first assembly session after the Congress government took over, she said 2023 will remain in history as the year that has brought a new beginning to Telangana's journey. People are experiencing the change already, she said.

"Telangana is breathing fresh air of freedom and liberty now. Telangana is liberated from autocratic rule and dictatorial tendencies," she said. The present elected government thanks all people, parties, leaders and the then UPA Government and the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for creating a separate Telangana State in 2014, respecting the decades-old aspirations of the people, she said. "On behalf of four crore Telangana people, the present government thanks Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the then chairperson of UPA, for the key role she played in the process of creating Telangana into a separate state," she said.

The Governor paid tribute to the martyrs who laid down their precious lives for the cause of Telangana statehood. Alleging that the entire financial discipline in the state is destroyed owing to the bad governance of the previous regime, she said the government is focused on strengthening the derailed financial situation.

"We will place before the people the financial condition of each and every department by releasing white papers and show them the real facts. We will be releasing the whitepapers as part of the transparent government that we promised to the people," she said.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, at the time of swearing in, made it clear that in a democracy, the rulers are the people's servants, and they are not feudal lords, she said.