Next battle between BJP's religious bigotry, BRS' development path: KTR
HYDERABAD: The coming electoral battle will be one between good governance, welfare and development on the one side, and religious bigotry on the other, Bharat Rashtra Samithi party working president and minister K.T. Rama Rao said on Saturday.
Addressing a public meeting in Mahbubnagar, Rama Rao said religion for the BRS government means development, welfare, and public good and these are the principles that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has pursued ensuring every section of the people are taken care of.
“We do not pay heed to those who propagate religious divisions and caste-based politics. If parties that believe in these methods are voted for, the situation later would see bloodshed. People must decide whether they want a Telangana that will find itself aflame as a result of such parties, or whether they want a state in which everyone flourishes. This is the question before the youth, farmers, and others,” he said.
Rama Rao said BJP came to power in Karnataka and Maharashtra by splitting political parties and in the process made a mockery of democracy. “This is the mark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. And in BJP today in Telangana, there are people who like slaves, carry chappals of Gujaratis. In Karnataka, they are now saying ‘Jai Bajrangbali’. It is only at the time of elections that BJP remembers the existence of deities.”
The people of Palamuru, Rama Rao said, “should decide if they want Modi who cancelled the 12.5 lakh crore loans of people like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choski who looted banks and got away, or if they want KCR, who like a maternal uncle, gave funds for marriages of 14 lakh young women from poor families.”