People will give VRS to BRS, says Nadda

Sangareddy: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged on Friday that the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS government had become synonymous with corruption, and that the party's rebranding from TRS to BRS would not prevent the ruling party from being overthrown in the upcoming Assembly elections.

BJP president J.P. Nadda dubbed the Bharat Rashtra Samithi government as a "Brashtachar Rishvat Sarkar" (corruption, bribery government), stating, "The daughter of the Chief Minister has been questioned by the ED in the Delhi liquor scam. This is just an indicator of how deep the corruption has set in in the Telangana government. This is the image of Telangana.”

“Whether it calls itself TRS or BRS, this party has no right to stay in power in Telangana anymore. The people have understood how corrupt the ruling party is. People are saying the Chandrashekar Rao government needs VRS (voluntary retirement from service). The ruling party used irrigation projects whose budget was raised from Rs 40,000 crore to Rs 1.4 lakh crore as its ATM. Land grabbing and scams have become the norm. This government has to go,” Nadda remarked.

He was addressing a gathering of party leaders in Sangareddy online after the virtual inauguration of the district BJP office on Friday from New Delhi. He also virtually inaugurated the district party offices in Bhupalpally, Warangal, Jangaon, and Mahbubabad districts, as well as Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur and Chittoor districts.

The new party offices, according to Nadda, are part of the BJP's effort to have its own offices in every district of the country, fulfilling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision set out in 2014.

"The BJP is an ideologically driven party. The party believes that there should be a one law for the entire country, and it was decided in 1972 that Article 370, which granted J&K special status, should be scrapped. In 2019, we accomplished this. This is the BJP's ideological consistency. Same was the case with the Ramjanmabhoomi. In Ayodhya, a magnificent Rama shrine is being built. Pursuing such ideological objectives is what distinguishes the BJP as an ideological party,” he remarked.

No other political party, whether it claims to be a national party, or is a regional party, has any ideological consistency, he added. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that BJP is not a party, it is a movement, an ideology, and that is what the BJP is,” he added.

With respect to Telangana, Nadda said in 2014, the state had 2,511 km of national highways. Now it has 4,996 km of such highways. “This is the length one can travel from Hyderabad to Ladakh and back. The railway budget for the state has been hiked by 45 per cent over the last year, 36 lakh farmers are covered by the Centre’s Kisan Samman Nidhi, 31 lakh toilets were built with central funds in the state, while under the PM Awas Yojana, 25 lakh houses were given to the state,” Nadda said.

Sanjay, who spoke before Nadda’s virtual address, declared amidst loud cheers that the BJP will not rest until minister K.T. Rama Rao is dismissed from the Cabinet over the TSPSC question paper leak scandal. “The BJP is standing with you,” Sanjay said referring to the 30 lakh unemployed affected by the TSPSC leaks and exam cancellations. “There is no going back on our demands of '1 lakh compensation to those affected by these events, and a probe by a High Court judge,” he said, adding that the state government, “has given the keys back to the thieves in TSPSC.”

Sanjay also took aim at Rama Rao for terming Modi a ‘broker’, telling the minister, “Your father is a passport broker. If KCR is serious about getting to the bottom of the TSPSC scandal, then he must sack KTR.”

The event at Sangareddy was attended by BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh, Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, with several other senior party leaders.