Hyderabad: The working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party K T Rama Rao came down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the latter claimed he had rejected chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s request to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), stating the BRS party does not require a “NOC (No Objection Certificate) from the PM.”
“If the BRS party wants to make a decision, our party members will make it. We do not need your (referring to PM Modi) NOC. The people of Telangana are all set to vote KCR as their chief minister for the third time,” he told reporters on Tuesday, October 3.
KTR further asked what did the saffron party do for Telangana in the last ten years of their rule. “What have you achieved for Telangana in the last decade and why should the people here vote for you and your party,” he asked.
The BRS party, on its official X account, tweeted that BJP will lose in Telangana. “You are the god who got stuck in Gandhi Bhavan! You are the brand ambassador of political prostitution! You are the thief caught on camera! If you fall for a lie and drag it, it’s you! From 2019 Parliament Elections Huzurabad, Nagarjuna Sagar, previous by-elections, it was the Congress-BJP that made an unholy alliance! The people of Telangana will once again build a tomb for your Milakhat politics!,” it said.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi visited Nizamabad where addressing a public gathering he alleged that he had “rejected the entry of KCR into NDA” even if it meant the BJP sitting in opposition in the 2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) polls.
Modi accused the BRS dispensation of ‘looting’ funds meant for development of the state.
“BJP government has given huge funds to the BRS government for the development of Telangana. But unfortunately the BRS govt looted that money. Loot is their mantra,” Modi claimed.
Telangana is all set to face the 2023 Assembly elections scheduled to take place later in the year. On Tuesday, a high-level team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) headed by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar arrived in Hyderabad to assess poll preparedness.
During the three-day visit, the team will meet political parties, enforcement agencies and other stakeholders and hold a crucial meeting with chief secretary Santhi Kumari and director-general of police (DGP) Anjani Kumar to discuss poll preparedness. It is likely to announce the schedule after ten days.
