India, Oct. 27 -- BRS senior leader T Harish Rao alleged that the Congress government in Telangana pushed the state's Civil Supplies Corporation into an Rs 1 lakh crore debt and was harassing the ration dealers by not paying bills.

Speaking at the Telangana Ration Dealers' meeting in Gajwel, Harish Rao questioned the Congress government on whether people must sacrifice their lives to get their work done. The government paid one ration dealer's bill of Rs 5 crore after he died, and that was the situation of ration dealers in Congress rule, he added.

"When Congress MLA Anirudh Reddy himself says he is ready to die to secure pending bills, and the Ration Dealers' Association president Raju says he is prepared to sacrifice his life to resol...