Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that while he won in the parliamentary elections of 2014, the country lost. He said that while ex-PM Manmohan Singh worked hard and spoke less, it’s the opposite case with the current Prime Minister.
He also called Nirmala Sitharaman’s 5 trillion size economy target a ‘joke’ and a very low target.
KCR made these remarks during the reply to the debate on the Appropriation Bill in the state Assembly
The chief minister said that the Prime Minister, while he made a chest-thumping speech in the Parliament, avoided answering questions on the Adani issue and bulldozed opposition from raising questions. “The manner in which BJP leaders are praising the PM will lead to the point of Modi becoming the ex-PM,” KCR said to the chortles of the TRS MLAs.
KCR, pointing to an article in an international magazine, stated there was ‘license raj’ during the Congress reign while it was ‘silence raj’ in the present government.
On the BBC documentary ban
Speaking on the BBC documentary ban issue, KCR said that BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay has filed a case in the Supreme Court to ban the international news organisation in the country. “Such arrogance..do you think BBC is Zee News in order to fear something like your ED?” he asked.
KCR said that such behaviour will not be tolerated by people for long. “Post 2024, they will be in ruins. We all saw what one Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan and the subsequent sparks that were generated in the country due to one Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan could do to Indira Gandhi,” he remarked.
Further targeting PM Modi’s remarks on the UPA rule, where he called it the ‘lost decade’, KCR recommended journalist Puja Mehra’s book ‘The Lost Decade’ 2008-2018 on the subject and said that the country’s growth deteriorated during the NDA rule. “The Congress suffers from a limitless lack of knowledge and has failed to express these facts,” he remarked.
KCR further mocked FM Nirmala Sitharaman for demanding PM Modi’s photo at a ration shop in Kamareddy district. “The nation’s finance minister fought with a poor ration dealer. She threatened him. Why exactly should PM Modi’s photo be displayed?” he said.
On Census and Caste census
KCR asked the reasons why the centre is not holding the census exercise in the country. “The process of census began way back in the year 1871. From then until 2011, the process never came to a halt. Even during the two world wars, it didn’t stop. Only through census does a government know what the situation is in the country. The centre is not doing it because they are afraid of people knowing the current situation,” he stated.
The chief minister said that people belonging to the BC and SC castes are demanding a caste census. “That is because the SC population was fixed at 15 percent way back ago. But with authority, I can say that it has now crossed 17 per cent. In some states it even crossed 19 percent,” he said.
On Vande Bharat accidents
KCR mocked PM Modi for inaugurating the Vande Bharat trains ’14 times’ just so that they hit a buffalo and get smashed. “Prime Ministers in the past didn’t launch trains this often,” KCR mockingly said.
