Hyderabad: TPCC treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to create a wrong impression that the Congress did nothing for the country in the last seven decades. “His rhetoric gives a feeling as if India was born in 2014 and he was made the first Prime Minister,” he said.
Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Friday, Narayana Reddy took serious exception to the BJP for its narrative of ’70 Saal Mein Kuch Nahi Huva (Nothing happened in the last 70 years)’ which is often mentioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speeches. “Even before Modi was born, India had won a war with Pakistan and also merged more than 500 Princely States into the Union Union. It also drafted and implemented the world’s best Constitution. When Modi was just six months old, India hosted the first Asian Games in New Delhi from March 4 to 11 in 1951.
Narayana Reddy said the Government of India created Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) on January 3, 1954. It was later renamed as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre on January 22, 1967. Several Public Sector companies like Bharat Petroleum, Bharat Electronics Limited, Hindustan Antibiotics, Hindustan Shipyard were already functional. The same Navratna companies are in deplorable condition now and the Modi Government wanted them to privatise to benefit a few rich individuals, he said.
The Congress leader also alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has supported the BJP in every aspect. He said TRS had the support of 16 MPs in the last Parliament, but did nothing for the State. He said TRS MPs could not even get National Project status for Kaleshwaram Project.
Except supporting the BJP at the Centre, KCR would do nothing if the TRS gets all 17 seats. He said the people of Telangana have realized that the TRS and BJP are allies and therefore, he said TRS would not win more than six seats in the forthcoming elections. (NSS)
