Clueless Revanth plans round-the-clock vegetable shops for youth like Modi's 'pakoda' plan, moots Amaravati like land pooling

HYDERABAD: “A man with no vision for his future will always return to his past,” says a famous quote. This fits like a glove for the clueless, visionless leaders like TPCC president A Revanth Reddy.

For a man who wishes to be the Chief Minister of India’s fastest growing State Telangana, generation of employment for the teaming masses will be through setting up shops that will sell vegetables round the clock.

Not only that, the visionary Congress leader Revanth Reddy had yet another nefarious plan to acquire 50,000 acres of land to build a new city by land pooling. Wishing to adopt a failed model tried by his ‘Guru” Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Revanth Reddy would like to pool agricultural land from farmers. Naidu pooled 30,000 acres of fertile agricultural land to build Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, a disaster waiting to happen if implemented in Telangana. While the lands in Amaravati and its surrounding areas were farmland, the lands in and around Hyderabad would cost a bomb as they were all commercial in nature and owned by real estate.

Speaking at the India Today Round Table series, the Congress leader stunned everyone by saying that he would pool all those street hawkers who sell things like vegetables, and put them in one single place. The vision was that the mall-like structure in Rachakonda would be kept open 24X7 by providing employment for the youth.

Revanth Reddy’s vision to increase employment opportunities is to run the vegetable market in three shifts, with the idea that more shifts would give more jobs. While Narendra Modi’s ‘pakoda’ selling plan for the unemployed was probably the most trolled on social media, Revanth’s visionary idea will be remembered as the best model after the Keynesian full employment model propounded to counter sliding economic growth.

But why would Revanth need the vegetable-selling and land-pooling schemes? Because he would require funds to implement the white elephant of the six guarantees that the Congress party gave to the people of Telangana if voted to power. The Congres forgot that the State revenues could not be stretched beyond a point without finding sources to earn additional revenue.

But what one could expect from a leader like Revanth who during the round table with India Today claimed that the Cash-for-Vote case was a medal for him. He was caught red-handed trying to bribe TRS (BRS) Anglo-Indian nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson.