KT Rama Rao counters Amit Shah comments

Hyderabad: Coming down heavily on union Home Minister Amit Shah for calling Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao as anti-farmer, Industries Minister and TRS working president KT Rama Rao reminded the former that BJP government had apologised to the farming community after facing their wrath over the contentious farm laws. He ridiculed the union Home Minister […]

Hyderabad: Coming down heavily on union Home Minister Amit Shah for calling Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao as anti-farmer, Industries Minister and TRS working president KT Rama Rao reminded the former that BJP government had apologised to the farming community after facing their wrath over the contentious farm laws. He ridiculed the union Home Minister for calling the Chief Minister an anti-farmer as a joke of the century.

In a series of tweets and public statement released on Monday, the Minister said Amit Shah was either blind or chose to remain oblivous to the development of Telangana State over the last eight years. He said while the Centre and other States were replicating the Chief Minister’s novel initiatives and the union government was presenting them with awards, Shah chose to criticise the Chief Minister as anti-farmer.

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“Who copied the Chief Minister’s brainchild Rythu Bandhu and rebranded it as PM-KISAN. Who apologised to the farmers of the nation after facing their wrath over farm laws; after losing 700 valuable lives. (sic),” he tweeted. He said the union Home Minister had no moral right to speak about farmers after implementing anti-farmers policies.

Amit shah Ji calling Hon’ble CM KCR Garu “Anti-farmer” is joke of the century 😁

❇️ Who copied KCR’s brainchild “Rythu Bandhu” & rebranded it as PM-Kisan?

❇️ Who apologised to the Farmers of the nation after facing their wrath over Farm-laws; After loosing 700 valuable lives?

— KTR (@KTRTRS) August 22, 2022

Rama Rao also strongly objected Amit Shah’s criticism that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had not joined the Central government’s Fasal Bheema Yojana. He tweeted, “Earlier, the BJP government in Gujarat too had rejected this scheme of NPA Government and opted out. If it is not good for your own State Gujarat, then how is it good for Telangana? What absurd Hypocrisy is this?”

The TRS working president stated that Amit Shah had disappointed the people of Munugode constituency who were expecting a funding package for development of the constituency. He said the BJP cannot put a price on the self-esteem of the people of Munugode as it had bought the sitting MLA with contracts worth crores of rupees. “The BJP will surely lose the bye-elections and get defeated by the people who have a very high self-esteem. People will not forget the BJP State leaders who mortgaged the
self-respect of Telangana before their Delhi bosses,” he added.

On the union Home Minister’s assurance to purchase every grain of paddy after the BJP comes to power, Rama Rao reminded that it was the BJP which was in power at the Centre. He accused the union government for refusing to purchase paddy from Telangana farmers due to political vendetta. He also slammed the BJP government for trying to destroy the handloom and powerloom sector.

TRS counters Amit Shah’s comments
Countering the union Home Minister’s comments, MP B Lingaiah Yadav experts and farming community across the country were appreciating Telangana Government’s schemes like Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima and others.

“If the BJP Government is committed for farming community welfare, Amit Shah should have answered the Chief Minister’s questions,” slammed the Lingaiah Yadav at a press conference here on Monday.

Tungaturthi MLA G Kishore said while the Chief Minister spoke facts, the union Home Minister uttered lies and people who had written the script for him lacked awareness on the issues.

“There are many leaders, who had committed atrocities on Dalits, in the BJP and it is height of hypocrisy that Amit Shah speaks about Dalits welfare,” said Kishore.