Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s blistering attack on the opposition parties in the state has evoked a sharp reaction from Congress party. While the Chief Minister termed the Congress party as “villain No 1 and enemy of Telangana people”, Congress leaders have alleged that the Chief Minister had turned a Rakhshas (monster) and was behaving in an arrogant manner.

Leader of opposition in the state assembly K Jana Reddy denied the allegation of the chief minister that the Congress party was obstructing the development and welfare programme of the state government.

An angry KCR held a press conference to lash out at the opposition after the Hyderabad High Court had restrained his government from absorbing 20,903 outsourced staff in the state power sector.

A division bench of the High Court ruled that the government can only utilise the service of the contract employees on a consolidated salary but not absorb them as they were not recruited in a proper manner.

An infuriated KCR said that the Congress was an evil force that had filed 196 petitions in the courts on irrigation projects to issue of employees since the formation of the state with an intention to obstruct the development.

Calling Congress party mad, KCR said, “no sooner a GO is issued by the government the Congress goes to court with a public interest litigation”.

He gave the example of the Kaleshwaram irrigation project on which the party had exhausted High Court and Supreme Court and now went to the National Green Tribunal.

Issuing a stern warning KCR said, “I have been watching quietly and with restraint. Now is the time for the real KCR to emerge”.

He warned that soon he will undertake a state wide tour and bare Congress on the public squares and expose it for what it is.

On the issue of absorbing contract staff in the power sector KCR announced a payment of extra Rs1,000 (Dh57) per month in addition to their consolidated salary.

Jana Reddy on the other hand denied that the Congress party was coming in the way of development. “We are extending cooperation in all the good works. As an opposition we are helping in development of the state”.

Denying that the Congress had gone to the court he said the people who were adversely affected by the government decisions had gone to court for justice.