Bharat Rashtra Samithi President and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Thursday said if his party retains power, the government will set up a special Information Technology park near Hyderabad for Muslim youths.

“Today, we are giving pensions which Muslims are also getting. We have opened residential schools in which Muslim students also study. We take everyone along with us. Today, we are thinking about Muslim youths and setting up a special IT park for them near Hyderabad. The IT park will come up near Pahadi Shareef,” KCR said while addressing an election rally in Maheshwaram.

Rao further said the BRS government has spent Rs 12,000 crores towards ‘minority development’ during the past 10 years against Rs 2,000 crore spent by the Congress during its 10-year regime. “As long as KCR is alive, Telangana will remain a secular state,” he added.

Stating that when Telangana was formed, the situation was chaotic with no proper drinking and irrigation water facilities, the CM said wealth has been growing as his government is putting in efforts and maintaining fiscal discipline.

KCR further said the agricultural situation has improved in the state and, if the same measures are continued for another 10 to 15 years, farmers would come out of the woods.