HYDERABAD: BRS working president and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday predicted that state Congress president A. Revanth Reddy would take a handful of MLAs and join the BJP after the elections.
Terming the Congress the ‘B Team’ of the BJP, Rama Rao called Revanth Reddy ‘Godse’, recalled the TPCC chief’s past association with the RSS and said that the Congress in Telangana is led by an RSS leader. “Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh wrote to Sonia Gandhi questioning why an RSS leader was made the Telangana Congress president,” he said.
Rama Rao said: “Congress will probably win in 10 seats and after that, Revanth Reddy will take these MLAs and join the BJP.”
The BRS leader was addressing a series of public meetings at Shadnagar, Raviryal, Vikarabad and Kukatpally constituencies.
“Revanth Reddy, as well as BJP state president G. Kishan Reddy, have no stature and are political pygmies. These two lack the stature to fight with KCR, who risked his life for Telangana statehood. Kishan Reddy ran away when asked to resign during the Telangana movement and Revanth Reddy was a thief who was caught red-handed in the vote for note case,” Rama Rao said.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi also could not compare to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao when it came to taking care of farmers and their needs. “KCR gave Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima and uninterrupted and free electricity to farmers, while Modi promised to double farmers' income by 2022 and did nothing about it,” he said.
“All Modi did was to double farmers' problems, not farmers’ income,” he said.
Cautioning the public against the Congress and BJP, he said: “BJP is bringing money from Adani, and Congress is bringing money from Karnataka to try and win in the coming elections. When they come, take their money, but vote for BRS.”
Addressing a meeting in Raviryal, where he inaugurated a new mega Vijaya Dairy facility spread over 40 acres and built at Rs 250 crore, Rama Rao said the state government has, so far, spent Rs 350 crore towards incentives to dairy farmers. The new facility can manufacture tetra brick packs for one lakh litres of milk a day.
