KCR will better guru NTR’s record, become South’s first hat-trick CM, says KTR

Chandrashekhar Rao, who entered politics with inspiration from former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, the late NT Rama Rao (NTR), would achieve the feat of becoming a hat-trick CM, which NTR could not achieve, he said.

Khammam: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who entered politics with inspiration from former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, the late NT Rama Rao, will achieve what NTR could not and become South India’s first hat-trick CM, IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said here on Saturday.

Speaking after unveiling a statue of NTR and inaugurating the NTR Municipal Park at Lakaram Tank Bund here, the IT Minister praised NTR, pointing out that he had earned recognition for Telugu people in the country. But now, his disciple Chandrashekhar Rao had upheld the self-esteem of Telangana people and achieved a separate Telangana, apart from ensuring recognition for Telangana across the country, he said, also stressing on his own name, Taraka Rama.

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“There is a magical power in the name Taraka Rama Rao, a friend of mine who has the same name told me. I am fortunate for getting an opportunity to unveil the statue of such a great leader and for being named Takara Rama Rao,” he said.

“The famous Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao was very dear to the Telugu people all over the world. We don’t know what Lord Rama is like or what Lord Krishna is like. But NTR is both Rama and Krishna to us. His name will remain forever among the great leaders of the country,” he said.

The Congress, on the other hand, was a sinking ship and its leaders, who were not sure of getting party tickets to contest in the polls, were trying to deceive the public with impracticable guarantee cards. The public should remember that Congress in its six decades of rule failed to deliver what it promised to them, he noted.

The Congress was trying to dump huge amounts of money in Telangana to influence voters. Voters should think wisely, support BRS in the upcoming elections to make Chandrashekhar Rao a hat-trick Chief Minister and Ajay Kumar a hat-trick MLA, he appealed to voters.

Earlier, Rama Rao, along with Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, MPs Nama Nageswara Rao, Vaddiraju Ravichandra and Bandi Parthasarathy Reddy, launched development works worth Rs.1,390 crore in Khammam and Palair Assembly constituencies. He inaugurated underground and storm water drains and 10 Municipal Parks developed with Rs.106 crore as part of Gollapadu channel modernisation, a football turf court at SBIT and a vegetable and meat market at VDOs Colony in Khammam.

He also laid the foundation stone for the Lakaram underground drainage and storm water drain along with underground drainage and sewerage treatment plant, a Rs.690 crore-CC retaining wall on either side of Munneru stream and a cable-stayed bridge to be built with Rs.180 crore across Munneru as part of Munneru River Front Project.
Rama Rao also laid the foundation stone for development works to be taken up with funds to the tune of Rs.100 crore from the Telangana Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation and Rs 20 LRS grants.

Addressing a ‘Pragathi Nivedana Sabha’ later, Rama Rao said Khammam had achieved tremendous growth in the last nine years. By spending Rs.2300 crore, as many as 50,000 new tap connections were given to households, he said while asking Ajay Kumar and district Collector VP Gautham to make plans to make KMC to be the first corporation in the State to supply round the clock drinking water to households.

In the past, there were 400 km of roads in Khammam constituency. Now 1,115 km long roads were laid in the municipal corporation, Raghunathapally mandals and surroundings. The Chief Minister established a Government Medical College and sanctioned a JNTU Engineering College, he said.