HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Congress may jointly contest the next general elections. The two parties were getting closer as evidenced from their coordination in Parliament recently.
Addressing the media at the BJP office in Hyderabad on Saturday after joining 500 people, mostly from the TRS and the Congress into BJP from Amangal mandal in Kalwakurthy constituency, Sanjay said Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was targeting Rs 50,000 crore revenue from liquor sales in the state.
Charging the TRS of turning the state into a haven for liquor consumption, he said Chandrashekar Rao started three new schemes in the state – ‘drink and drool, swing and swoon and plumb and plunder the resources’.
He said the state was infested with drug mafia, sand mafia and wine mafia. The mafias were sapping the energies of the youth and there was no concerted effort to protect the youths from the clutches of these vices. He said even some leaders were going to other states and opening liquor businesses there.
On farmer suicides, he flayed the KCR administration for aggravating the situation as it failed to address the concerns of farmers. “Nowhere have we seen farmers dying after reaping a good harvest. The short sighted views of administration are playing havoc in the lives of peasants in the state,” he said.
Taking objections to pro-China banter of Chandrashekar Rao, he told him to acknowledge the sacrifices made by Chief of Defense Staff General B.P. Rawat who was recently killed in a helicopter crash while China was running a counter narrative to it.
On the state ministers’ functioning, Sanjay mounted criticism saying that ministers had become dummies as home minister could not even get a home guard appointed while roads and buildings ministers could not even ground a small road. All powers were vested in the family of the Chief Minister which was detrimental to the development of Telangana state, Sanjay added.
He assured the people that once the BJP came to power, it would usher in a golden rule for the state under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
