Congress blames KCR for RTC strike

The Telangana Congress on Thursday blamed Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for the strike by employees of Road Transport Corporation.

Speaking to media persons here, Congress senior leader Mallu Ravi and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar said that the Chief Minister back-tracked on his promise of giving hike to the RTC staff on par with State Government employees. They justified the demands being made by the employees unions and accused the State Government of intimidating the employees by threatening to invoke ESMA. Announcing their complete support to the RTC strike, they demanded that the State Government accept all the demands to end the strike.