Hyderabad, Aug. 7 -- Alleging that the Congress government was dealing a blow to Telangana's weaving community, BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Friday, August 7, wrote an open letter to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, raising concerns over the plight of weavers in the state.

Written on National Handloom Day, the letter was shared both by the BRS and KTR on X.

He said that decisions to scrap the All India Handloom Board, Handicrafts Board, and Powerloom Board, and the imposition of 5 per cent GST on handloom products have severely impacted the handloom sector.

He pointed out that welfare schemes for weavers, implemented by the BRS government, such as 'Netaanna Bima' and 'Netaanna Ku Cheyutha' have been discontinued, pushing weav...