Even after 75 years, there has been no decentralisation of power; on the contrary, authoritarian inclinations have become stronger, and power has been more centralised. The federal spirit, which was supposed to grow, is receding. The telangana rashtra samithi (TRS) president claimed that the unified authorities discriminated against telangana when it was a part of andhra pradesh, and that the Centre is now doing the same to the newly independent telangana state. "The fact that the Centre is discouraging a progressive and development-oriented state is terrible.
Discrimination has been a part of Telangana's history since its inception "He recalled that the Centre had combined seven mandals in khammam district with andhra pradesh even before telangana celebrated its foundation day, and as a result, telangana lost the Sileru Power Project. kcr claimed that the Centre ignored the recommendation of the niti aayog to allocate Rs 24,000 crore to the Mission Bhagiratha and Mission Kakatiya programmes.