KTR accuses Congress of treating minorities as vote bank, failing to fulfil promises

BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused the Congress of treating minorities as a vote bank and failing to fulfil its promises. He said Telangana achieved record progress under K Chandrashekhar Rao and urged voters to back BRS in the Jubilee Hills bypoll

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao said the Congress was treating minorities as a vote bank and failing to fulfil the promises made before coming to power. Despite announcing a Rs 4,000 crore minority budget and a minority sub-plan, the Congress government had not implemented them even after two years in office, he said.

Addressing a meeting of BRS minority leaders in Shamshabad on Monday, Rama Rao recalled that under former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, Telangana had introduced schemes such as Shaadi Mubarak, minority residential schools, overseas scholarships and the establishment of new medical colleges.

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“These initiatives helped many minority youth become doctors, engineers and other professionals. No other State in India has matched Telangana’s spending on minority welfare,” he said.

He contrasted the BRS’s delivery of promises over 10 years with the Congress’s unfulfilled assurances. “The BRS implemented every scheme it announced and even those it did not. We might have made some mistakes, but we have done more for minorities than any other government,” Rama Rao said.

He also criticised the Congress for excluding minorities from the Cabinet despite their sizeable population of 45 lakh in Telangana. He accused the ruling party of sidelining senior leaders like Shabbir Ali and Mohd Azharuddin and questioned Rahul Gandhi’s silence over bulldozer-style governance in the State.

“Rahul Gandhi says ‘Chowkidar chor hai,’ but Revanth Reddy calls the same Chowkidar his Bade Bhai. Rahul accuses CBI, ED and IT of being BJP’s pocket organisations, yet Revanth Reddy handed over the Kaleshwaram project to the CBI. The Congress and BJP are running a joint venture government in Telangana,” he alleged, questioning Revanth Reddy’s close association with the BJP.

The BRS working president said Revanth Reddy’s administration thrived on publicity and vendetta. “HYDRAA is targeting the poor, not corrupt Congress leaders. In two years, Revanth did nothing except chant KCR’s name,” he remarked. He pointed out that Revanth Reddy had failed to implement the much-touted guarantees and had instead scrapped several initiatives introduced by the previous BRS regime.

Calling the upcoming Jubilee Hills bypoll a test of the Congress’s governance, Rama Rao urged minorities to support BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha. “This election is a referendum on two years of Congress misrule versus ten years of BRS progress,” he added.