Prison cells being readied for KCR, family: Bandi

WARANGAL: BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Saturday said prison cells were being readied in the state for Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and members of his family.

“My workers are being lathi-charged by the police, they are being sent to prison. I have been sent to prison. In Karimnagar, I readied a room in the jail there for Chandrashekar Rao. We also prepared rooms in Siddipet, Nalgonda and Adilabad jails. We are now preparing a room at the Cherlapally jail,” Sanjay said in a fiery speech at the public meeting in Warangal marking the end of the third phase of his Praja Sangrama Yatra.

“There is no question of letting you (Chief Minister), or your family off.
We will send all of you to prison, and will fight hard to do so,” Sanjay
said.

Sanjay said they were collecting details of the ‘ill-gotten’ wealth of
Chandrashekar Rao. “We will not let off the Kalvakuntla family for looting the people of Telangana. There is no scam, be it liquor, or any raid by enforcement agencies in Hyderabad without a Chandrashekar Rao family connection.”

He also dared the Chief Minister to gear up and come forward for an open debate on developmental activities taken up in Telangana state with the Central funds. He alleged that the TRS government diverted the Central government funds including Rs 196 crore Smart City funds for Warangal. Sanjay said the Chief Minister could pick a time and place for the debate.

 “When we provided details of the Central government funds allotted to Telangana to the people during the Praja Sangrama yatra, people were shocked at how the TRS government diverted those funds,” he said.

Sanjay alleged that the Chief Minister was trying to protect members of his family from the Delhi liquor scam. “If he has the courage, then the Chief Minister should deny any involvement of his family in the scam. It is only to divert the attention that Munawar Faruqi, who insulted Goddess Sita, was brought to Hyderabad and provided with 2,000 policemen for protection.

Faruqui was brought by ‘Twitter Tillu’ only to ensure no discussion took
place on the liquor scam, to create communal tension and gain political benefit,” Sanjay said.

He said neither he, nor his party leaders and workers were intimidated by the government invoking PD Act and arresting them, and that they would continue with their campaign against the TRS government with all their might. He also announced that he would start the fourth phase of Praja Sangrama Yatra from September 12 and dared the TRS government to halt it.

Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, in his speech, said, “For Chandrashekar Rao, development means only of his family and not of the state. This is a government of lies, and says the Centre did not give anything for the state’s development. We are ready for a debate on this.”

For Warangal alone, Kishan Reddy said, the Centre gave hundreds of crores of rupees, and listed how funds were allocated for laying of highways to the city from other parts of the state, including Rs 2,295 crore spent on the road from Hyderabad, another Rs 4,321 crore for the highway to Jagtial, as well as Rs 550 crore for the Warangal bypass road. “In all, the Centre gave around Rs 20,000 crore for the state for highways alone,” he said.

Karimnagar MP Dharmapuri Arvind said the Praja Sangrama Yatra and the public meeting went on despite severe hurdles created by the Chief Minister and asked the people if they wanted a leader like Chandrashekar Rao who ran a corrupt government or a leader like Modi who was leading a development-oriented government in the country.

Among those who also spoke were party leaders Rakesh Reddy, Gangidi Manohar Reddy, and K. Vijaya Rama Rao.