HYDERABAD: Telangana MLC and Congress leader Balmoor Venkat has issued a strong counter to BRS MLC K. Kavitha’s recent remarks on Group-1 recruitment, accusing her and her party of deliberately misleading unemployed youth and failing them during their decade-long rule.
Addressing the media, Venkat said that while the Congress government has issued 57,000 jobs since its first day in office—reviving both pending and new notifications—BRS leaders are unable to digest this progress and are reacting out of political insecurity.
He questioned Kavitha’s credibility, asking where she had been during the last ten years when Telangana youth were taking their own lives over exam paper leaks and job uncertainties. “Where was she when TSPSC papers were leaked or when Inter students died by suicide?” he asked, accusing her of being too preoccupied with the liquor business at the time to express even basic sympathy.
Highlighting the Congress party’s history of fighting for employment opportunities, Venkat said that as former NSUI president, he had actively campaigned for notifications to be issued. He reminded that it was under pressure from legal challenges over irregularities in previous Group-1 exams that the TSPSC and the BRS government were forced to cancel those tests—admitting their own mistakes.
“From the beginning, BRS leaders have tried to stall the Group-1 process through continuous litigation and pressure tactics. They failed to conduct these exams for years, and now that Congress is actively moving forward with recruitment, they’re feeling threatened,” he added.
Taking direct aim at Kavitha, Venkat accused her of distorting publicly available information and attempting to confuse job aspirants. He called her recent statements “factually wrong and politically motivated” and said that it was laughable she was making false claims about women’s centres and malpractice in exam centres without evidence.
He challenged the BRS leaders to explain why they did not raise these issues when they were in power and said it was clear they were now trying to inflame public sentiment for political gain. “In fact, from 2017 to 2023, BRS issued notifications for 14,000 posts but failed to conduct the exams—betraying the very youth who fought for Telangana,” he said.
Venkat went on to say that Telangana’s people have seen through BRS’s tactics. “Congress never misled students. If there are mistakes, this government will correct them with transparency. But if BRS leaders continue this kind of talk, the youth and the public may soon reject them with stones,” he warned.
He also alleged infighting within the BRS, saying Kavitha and KTR were in silent competition with each other. He offered to take Kavitha to the Chief Minister to present her evidence—if she had any. “If something went wrong, we’ll fix it. But don’t play with the lives of unemployed youth for selfish political ends,” he concluded.
