Hyderabad: The BRS and the Congress on Saturday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘most corrupt’ remark against the Telangana government during his visit to Warangal.
“KCR government is the most corrupt..so corrupt that it even has spread to Delhi. In the past, we used to hear about developmental agreements between states. But now, the two governments have agreed to indulge in corruption..,” the Prime Minister said in a reference to BRS MLC K Kavitha’s alleged role in the Delhi Excise policy scam in which several AAP leaders are in currently lodged in jail.
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the BRS government, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao said the PM has insulted the people of the state by setting up a Rs 520 crore wagon factory while “taking away” a Rs 20,000 crore rupees locomotive factory to Gujarat.
Referring to PM’s comments that there are thousands of teacher posts vacant in Telangana, KTR said it is like “pot calling the kettle black” as the centre is not filling more than 16 lakh central government jobs and is permanently privatising jobs in public sector organisations.
The Congress joined the debate with its senior leader Jairam Ramesh drawing parallels with PM Modi’s earlier remarks against the Conrad Sangma-led National People’s Party (NPP) in Meghalaya and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra regarding corruption.
He alleged that the BJP and BRS are together despite repeated assertions by Telangana BJP leaders that the saffron party will not align with the ruling BRS in Telangana and will fight against both the BRS and the Congress.
“The PM has called the BRS the most corrupt government in India. So naturally the BJP and BRS are together. Remember earlier this year HM had called the Meghalaya Government of Conrad Sangma the most corrupt government. Thereafter BJP tied up with Sangma. I had written a letter to CBI on March 21, 2023 requesting it to question the HM on the very serious charges he had made. There has yet to be any movement on it. And of course there was a time when the PM had termed the NCP as a Naturally Corrupt Party,” Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
