Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Leader of the Opposition K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) is likely to attend the first day of the Telangana Legislative Assembly session on Monday, December 29, marking his first appearance in the House since the BRS’s defeat in the 2023 Assembly elections.
In view of the session, KCR arrived in Hyderabad from his farmhouse in Erravelli on Sunday evening, local media reports said.
Ahead of the session, KCR held a key meeting with senior party leaders, including former ministers T Harish Rao and Vemula Prashanth Reddy, to discuss the party’s approach to crucial issues expected to come up for debate, particularly those related to river water sharing and irrigation projects.
KCR targets Revanth on Palamuru project
KCR, who stayed away from public events during the last two years, addressed a press conference recently and said chief minister A Revanth Reddy’s regime failed to put pressure on the Union government, which allegedly returned a detailed project report of the Palamuru-Rangareddy irrigation project. The BRS president also described the Congress regime as “useless”.
Revanth hits back
KCR’s remarks received a strong response from the chief minister, who pointed out that the former had mostly stayed away from the Assembly during the last two years.
Revanth Reddy, who dared the BRS president to attend the Assembly session, had alleged that it was BRS and Chandrasekhar Rao who betrayed Telangana more compared to undivided Andhra Pradesh.
The government is ready for debate with proofs, he had said.
Countering KCR’s comments that he would “skin” the Congress government, Revanth Reddy, on December 24, took a vow to prevent KCR’s family from coming to power as long as he is in politics and also asserted that Congress would form a government after the next Assembly elections.
Acrimonious verbal exchanges
Besides water issues, the state is witnessing acrimonious verbal exchanges between BRS and Congress almost on a daily basis.
The BRS may also seek to question the Congress government over its election promises, including Rs 2,500 monthly financial assistance to poor women and one tola of gold for the wedding of poor young women.
However, Congress may corner the BRS over the judicial commission on the Kaleshwaram project, built during the BRS regime, finding fault with KCR for the alleged irregularities and others.
Jubilee Hills, rural poll results
While the Congress is jubilant over its success in the recent by-election to the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency and the Gram Panchayat elections. The BRS managed to come up with a decent show in the rural polls.
Since its shocking defeat in the 2023 Assembly elections, the electoral performance of BRS has been poor as it drew a blank in the 2024 Lok Sabha, followed by losses in the two Assembly bypolls — Secunderabad Cantonment in 2024 and Jubilee Hills in 2025.
With inputs from PTI.
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