Compare BRS, Congress regimes; vote for development, KTR appeals to voters

SIRCILLA: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) has called upon the people of Telangana to draw a comparison between the BRS and the Congress regime and vote for development. KTR was in Sircilla on Tuesday and participated in road shows on the last day of the election campaign.

Speaking to media at the Telangana Bhavan here, KTR said, “In the last decade, the topography of Telangana had changed under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) with parched lands turned fertile with Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation and Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme.” He added that Telangana was now leading the country in paddy production surpassing Punjab and Haryana.

Squarely blaming the Congress for the backwardness in Telangana, KTR said that people faced a harrow time with droughts, poverty, power cuts and farmers even committed suicides due to financial distress in the Congress regime. “People should decide whether they need days of 24-hour power supply by the BRS or three power supply by the Congress. KCR had completed several projects that seemed impossible within a short period of time and achieved holistic development apart from implementing welfare schemes to all sections of the people,” he said.

KTR said that be it fluorosis in erstwhile Nalgonda district, Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya, Rythu Bandhu or Dalit Bandhu and many more programmes were taken up by the BRS Government which were not even thought by the Congress. Taking potshots at the Congress for its anti-farmer policies, the BRS working president said that TPCC president A Revanth Reddy and the Congress had openly declared that Dharani portal would be abolished if they came to power. He urged the farmers not to fall into the trap of the grand old party which had utterly failed in implementing the five guarantees in Karnataka. There were also instances where farmers were staging protests before the substations for power supply, he added.

Launching a scathing attack on the BJP and the Congress, KTR said that the two national parties were gripped in a fear that the BRS would win for the third consecutive time in the upcoming elections. In this regard, they had roped in top brass from New Delhi and campaigned in Telangana to defeat the BRS. There were no curfews, communal disturbances and people were living in peace and harmony in Telangana for the last decade, he said.