BRS chief slams A. Revanth Reddy, promises return to power
Karimnagar: BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Monday declared war on HYDRAA, and announced that his first signature on reclaiming the Chief Minister’s office would be on the file to abolish the agency. Calling HYDRAA a “useless and destructive system,” Rao accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of using the environment as a pretext to terrorise the poor, and using HYDRAA as a means to do so.
He was addressing the ‘Praja Ashirwada Sabha’ public meeting in Jagtial where former Congress leader T. Jeevan Reddy joined the BRS. Rao welcomed him into the party fold, and announced Jeevan Reddy’s appointment as “party general secretary with immediate effect.”
Launching a blistering attack on the Congress government, Rao said the BRS was destined to return to power with a bumper majority. Taking strong exception to “people wishing for his death,” a reference to the Chief Minister’s remark earlier in the day, Rao said “such personal attacks and death wishes directed at him by Congress leaders, would not deter him. “Even if they take another 1,000 births, they cannot kill me. I will continue to serve the people of Telangana until my final breath,” he said.
Dismissing the Congress administration as incompetent, and alleging that it prioritised destruction over development, the BRS chief said while HYDRAA was creating terror, the Musi river rejuvenation project was a conspiracy by Revanth Reddy to grab land in the garb of the project. “We are not opposed to a clean Musi, but what is the rationale behind demolishing 10,000 houses using this project as an excuse,” he asked.
He also warned the government against extending HYDRAA’s operations to other districts.
Chandrashekar Rao said the government failed to deliver on its electoral promises, including gold for brides, scooters, increased pensions and the job calendar, and abandoning welfare schemes like Rythu Bandhu and Dalit Bandhu. “The government even failed to provide urea to farmers,” he said, adding that instead of doing actual urea supply, the government was content with creating an app claiming that the fertilizer was being supplied.
Recalling the decades of discrimination that Telangana faced before statehood, where even mentioning the word Telangana in the Assembly was once restricted, Rao reminded the cadre that the BRS lost the previous election by a mere 1.7 per cent margin. He expressed confidence that the public had begun to realise the “true nature” of the Congress and predicted a decisive victory for the BRS in the future.
