BJP lost its senses for votes, seats: KTR

Minister takes strong objection of the BJP leader's comment of carrying out a surgical strike on city

Hyderabad: What TRS government did in Hyderabad for last six years both Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) failed to do it in 60 years, TRS working president KT Rama Rao said here on Tuesday.

Pointing out that the apathy the city was subjected to for over six decades could not be done away with overnight, Rao said however, the vision and commitment of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was helping the TRS government bring about changes, with the government now planning up to 30 years in advance.

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Citing the Chief Minister’s initiative to construct the Keshavapuram reservoir on the city outskirts to meet the drinking water needs of Hyderabad till 2050, Rao asked why the Congress or the TDP, which ruled Andhra Pradesh for so many years, had not taken up such a project even when the city used to reel under severe drinking water shortage.

Addressing a large crowd at Gandhinagar in the Musheerabad Assembly constituency on the fourth day of his roadshow ahead of the GHMC elections, Rao said the two parties had failed to solve even the traffic problems at the busy Golconda crossroads and RTC crossroads. But the TRS government, which was developing infrastructure like no other government did, was constructing a steel bridge at RTC crossroads at a cost of Rs 450 crore to ensure hassle-free traveling. The work would be completed in 18 months, he said.

Earlier, taking strong objection to the remarks of a BJP leader that the BJP would carry out a surgical strike on Hyderabad if it won the GHMC polls, Rama Rao asked whether that person had ‘gone completely insane for a few votes and seats’.

Wondering whether Hyderabad was not in India or whether it was in Pakistan or China, Rao asked whether the BJP leader had any sense. “Does he have any shame? Is he in his senses?” Rao asked.

Asking people not to get carried away with the communal politics of the BJP, which he said was trying to divide people in the name of religion, Rao said Hyderabad could get investments from companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook because it was peaceful, and if such investments continued, youngsters here would get more jobs.

For the last six years, there are no card clubs that enjoyed betting nor were there any dens brewing illicit liquor in the city, he said, asking the people to teach both the BJP and the AIMIM a fitting lesson in Bholakpur division by voting for the TRS candidate.

Launching a scathing attack on the BJP-led NDA government, Rao criticised the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy for failing to allot funds to Telangana.

“You can ask Kishan Reddy as to how much money he brought from the Central government for the development of the city in the last six years,” Rao said, adding that it was Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao who was working for the overall development of the State since 2014 with no help at all from the Centre.

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