Defeat Congress, it wants your votes not woes, says KCR

HUZURNAGAR: Congress always wanted power and never took responsibility for the people who voted for that party, said Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) addressing ‘Praja Ashirvad Sabha’ in Huzurnagar on Tuesday.

Calling upon the people to defeat the Congress and especially the people behind that party, KCR enlisted several incidents that occurred right from 1946 when seven people who fought against merging of Telangana with Andhra died in police firing.

“Political parties have come and gone, but the plight of Dalits remained the same. Youth should think and vote because they are the future of the country,” KCR said. Reminding the people of Huzurnagar of the injustice meted out to the people of Telangana during the rule of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, he said that none of the Congress leaders opposed the lopsided distribution of river water breaking the back of the Telangana farmers. “Uttam says that Pandit Nehru built Nagarjunasagar, did I ever say that KCR built it? No, all I said in Kodad was that Congress failed to protect the interests of the region by releasing water in time,” KCR said.

KCR said that the BRS Government released Krishna water from Nagarjunasagar 18 times in two years saving lakhs of acres of standing crops in Nalgonda district. Unlike Congress BRS fought for its people against Andhra Pradesh rulers in Assembly.

“When the then CM Kiran Kumar Reddy threatened that he would not give a single paisa for Telangana, none of the great Congress leaders reacted. Under the pink flag when I demanded water for drying crops of Huzurnagar the then State Government released the water the very next day,” the BRS Chief said.

Attributing the waning fluoride problem from the erstwhile district of Nalgonda to the successful implementation of ‘Mission Bhagiratha’ he said that ‘Rytu Bandhu’ yet another flagship programme of the Telangana State Government was appreciated by the UNO and eminent agricultural scientist and father of green revolution Dr Swaminathan. “In our State, Uttam Kumar Reddy hates Rytu Bandhu. So just go to polling booths in large numbers and vote to defeat him,” he said.

Explaining the reasons for depositing benefits directly into the bank accounts of farmers, he said that he heeded the advice of an economist Ashok Gulati. “He said that let the farmers decide on which input they want to invest. Don’t just give them fertilisers he said. Today we produce three crore tonnes of paddy and second to Punjab, Soon we will cross 4 crore tonnes mark,” KCR declared.