Bandi Sanjay slams KCR, declares that Telangana is not a role model

HYDERABAD: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Saturday slammed Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's claim that Telangana has become a role model for the entire country.

Speaking to the media at the party office on the occasion of several leaders from Sangareddy district joining the BJP, Sanjay considered in which field Telangana would be considered a role model for the country.

“Is it in the suicides of farmers? Or non-implementation of promises like supply of free urea and seeds and loan waiver? Or slashing of all subsidies to the agriculture sector in the name of the Rythu Bandhu scheme? Or not paying salaries to employees on time? Or pushing the state into bankruptcy?” he asked.

He said KCR’s government was not a farmer-friendly government, but a government that ruined families. “He is playing a big drama in the name of admitting Maharashtra farmers into the BRS only to divert the attention of the people from the allegations made by Sukesh Chandrasekhar that he had given Rs 75 crore to the BRS,” he alleged.

Sanjay demanded that the Telangana State Public Service Commission board be completely dissolved and questioned why the BRS government was reluctant to order a judicial investigation into the scam by a sitting high court.

“The SIT claims to have arrested 15 persons and questioned 104 candidates. Why has no action been taken against KCR’s son K T Rama Rao, who has misled the media and the public?” he asked.

Reiterating his charge that several bigwigs of the BRS were involved in the TSPSC question paper leakage scam, the BJP president lashed out at KTR for saying that his IT department had nothing to do with the scam. “Except amassing wealth through scams, he has no responsibility – whether it is in the mauling of children by stray dog or suicides of intermediate students,” he criticised and demanded that KTR be sacked from the cabinet immediately.

Answering a question, Sanjay admitted that Sharmila had spoken to her over the phone and that he had condemned her illegal arrest in the past. “I told her that we are ready to fight in support of anybody who is meted out injustice. But I also made it clear that we cannot work along with the Congress, as we strongly feel the Congress and the BRS are hand in glove with each other,” he asserted.

He reminded that senior Congress leaders like K Jana Reddy themselves were saying that the Congress and TRS would fight the elections together. “How can we join hands with such a party? Ours is a disciplined party. We shall take a call on whom to work with after holding thorough discussions within the party,” he said.

Sanjay strongly objected to KTR’s comment that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was acting like a broker. “What should I call KCR? Was he not a passport broker in the past? He was also accused of indulging in illegal liquor trade,” he reminded.

Reacting to the poster war indulged in by the BRS leaders, the BJP president said if the BRS was on the posters on walls, the BJP is in the hearts of the people. “It is atrocious that the police arrest the BJP workers who paste posters against the BRS, but keep quiet when the BRS leaders paste posters against Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said.