BRS expanding footprints, will form farmer-friendly Govt at Centre: Thota Chandrasekhar

GANNAVARAM: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Andhra Pradesh President Dr Thota Chandrasekhar on Wednesday slammed the Centre for taking the country backwards with its anti-people policies and using religion and caste to create rift between people. Right now, the country is in a critical state and is looking up to the BRS in its quest for a potent alternative to the BJP at the Centre, he claimed.

Dr Chandrasekhar arrived at the Gannavaram airport to a rousing reception from his followers. Speaking to the media at the airport, Chandrashekhar expressed concern over the various problems faced by the farmers, youths besides other sections of people across the country. The former IRS officer pointed out that the country continued to reel under a severe unemployment crisis and people of rural areas were still struggling hard to get drinking and irrigation water, electricity and other basic needs even after 75 years of independence.

He chided the rulers of the past and present at the Centre for still pursuing divisive politics by creating rifts between people in the name of religion.

Thota Chandrasekhar said that the Union Government had no control over the economy and stressed the need for an alternative party in the country. He also pointed out the lack of development in Andhra Pradesh citing the bifurcation of the state being the root-cause for it. The BRS leader further alleged that the Centre failed to fulfill the promises made as part of the AP Reorganisation Act, be it completing the Polavaram project, establishing Dugarajapatnam Port, Kadapa Steel Plant, Visakha Railway Zone and Vizag Metro train facility. He said that the Centre was showing stepmotherly love towards Andhra Pradesh.

Stating that the BRS, headed by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), was the only alternative for the BJP, Chandrashekhar said that the party would bring qualitative change in the political spectrum and administration by implementing the Telangana model of development across the country.

He said that while the BJP and the Congress were limited to only a few states, BRS was expanding its footprints in all the states including Andhra Pradesh. "The BRS will emerge as a major party in the next elections and form a farmer-friendly government at the Centre," Chandrasekhar asserted.