Hyderabad, March 10 -- Telangana Transport and BC Welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar has written an open letter to union ministers G Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar urging them to raise Telangana's pending issues during the ongoing Union Budget debate in Parliament and secure funds and approvals for long-pending projects.

Prabhakar said the Union Government has shown negligence in implementing promises made to Telangana. He stressed that funds from the Centre "are not charity but the rightful share of Telangana's people who contribute taxes to the national economy."

"While neighbouring Andhra Pradesh receives substantial allocations in successive Union Budgets, Telangana also deserves fair support without political discrimination," h...