Hyderabad : Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy ridiculed the claims being made by BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav of BJP forming the next government in Telangana State. “BJP is a non-entity in Telangana. It is highly difficult for the BJP to even retain five seats that it had in dissolved Assembly,” he said.
Narayana Reddy said that the BJP has no moral right to seek votes from the people of Telangana as its government at the Centre has not fulfilled any promises that were made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. “Before seeking votes, Prime Minister Narender Modi should apologise with the people of Telangana for not establishing the Railway Coach Factory at Qazipet, a Steel Plant at Bayyaram, Tribal University, IIM and institutions promised in the Act. BJP Government, in connivance with TRS Govt in State, did not provide funds for the ITIR region which could have provided over 50 lakh jobs. Modi Government is equally responsible for suicides of over 4500 farmers in Telangana,” he said.
The Congress said both BJP and TRS worked together for the last four years and just before elections, they are enacting the drama of rivalry. “Why it took four years for the BJP to realise that TRS was corrupt? If BJP is seriously convinced on corruption by TRS Government, why the Central Government was not ordering a CBI probe against KCR and his family?” he asked.
“If BJP genuinely believes that KCR is corrupt, then Union Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley should direct the Income Tax, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate and other agencies to conduct join raids at residences of KCR, KTR and other family members immediately. The Central agencies will surely unearth illegal wealth of thousands of crores from KCR family if they are given free hand to conduct a probe. BJP should prove its seriousness through action and not through hollow words,” he said.
Reddy alleged that both BJP and TRS Governments were corrupt and anti-people and just a few days before elections, they are indulging in game of allegation-counter allegation to divert people’s attention from their failures. “People have understood that they were cheated by both PM Modi and CM KCR and they have decided to vote in favour of Congress party to put an end to the corrupt and inefficient regimes of TRS and BJP in next elections,” he said. (NSS)
