Cong. govt will bring with it riots and violence: KTR

Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Monday warned that a Congress government in the state would be a huge blow to peace and tranquillity in the city, and a return to uncertainty, citing “commonplace” riots and violence in the city during previous Congress regimes in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

“It is this party, just to enforce a change in the Chief Minister due to infighting, took the lives of 400 people between 1989 and 1994,” Rama Rao said.

Addressing party polling booth-level leaders in the Sanathnagar constituency, he said: “Congress is capable of such acts just for power. BJP divides people on the basis of religion. On the other hand, there is KCR, who has tended to the city and state just as you take care of a baby and ensure its safety.”

Calling on BRS workers and leaders to ensure people understand the issue, he said: “If Hyderabad is destabilised, entire Telangana will be affected.”

Rama Rao was accompanied by Talasani Srinivas Yadav, the BRS candidate from Sanathnagar, who will take on Dr Marri Shashidhar Reddy of the BJP and Dr Kota Neelima of the Congress.

Even as he targeted the Congress, Rama Rao said it was up to BRS workers to ensure the BJP did not win a single seat in Hyderabad. “If at all it has a sliver of a chance, it is in Goshamahal, where Raja Singh is contesting on behalf of the BJP. Work to ensure that this party is rooted out and loses deposits in all constituencies. All BJP does is to sow division between Hindus and Muslims. The less said about its president G. Kishan Reddy the better, especially after he ran away from contesting from Amberpet in the elections,” he said.