People are with BJP, says Kishan Reddy

Hyderabad: Union minister and BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy on Tuesday disapproved of minister K.T. Rama Rao’s objection to a candidate from the Backward Classes community becoming Chief Minister, and alleged it would amount to opposing social justice. He added that any person regardless of any caste can become CM.

Addressing media persons, the BJP state chief said, “We don’t need the BRS and the Congress, which are family parties steeped in corruption. I appeal to the people not to fall in the trap of these parties. They will never meet the aspirations of the people. That the people of Telangana are with us is evident with the response from the public during the meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J.P. Nadda.”

Kishan Reddy said the BRS and the Congress are throwing mud at the BJP owing to insecurity. They are releasing fake survey reports but a silent revolution in favour of the BJP has started and we will win and form the government. He said a vote for the BRS or the Congress will throw the state into a debt trap and financial catastrophe.

Stating that it would be for the first time that Telangana would have a Chief Minister from the BC community, Reddy said that persons from the Dalit and BC communities, women and youths were with the BJP and even women from the minority communities were supporting it.

Coming down heavily against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, the Union minister said they better speak with political understanding.

Pooh-poohing suggestions that the BJP and the AIMIM were working together, he alleged, “The AIMIM was encouraged like the Muslim League that resulted in the division of the nation. Congress and BRS leaders cannot visit the Old City without the permission of MIM.”

In an open letter to the people, he wrote that the state was formed over the demand for control over water, funds and jobs and not because of one family. He said the BRS government had pushed the state into debt and used irrigation projects to loot the state. “What justice does this ensure to the state on the issue of water then?”

He said not even one per cent of the 39 lakh youth in the state were able to secure jobs, and that the Rs 3,016 unemployment dole had eluded them. The Dalit community was similarly cheated.