KTR accuses Congress of using HYDRAA to target BRS in Jubilee Hills
BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused CM Revanth Reddy and the Congress of misusing HYDRAA to blackmail and target opponents ahead of the Jubilee Hills bypoll. He alleged minorities were betrayed, welfare schemes ignored, and urged voters to support BRS
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao lashed out at Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and the Congress government for using HYDRAA as a tool to blackmail, extort money and silence dissent. He alleged that the Congress was conspiring to win the Jubilee Hills by-election with money collected from builders in the name of HYDRAA.
Addressing a party meeting at Telangana Bhavan on Wednesday, Rama Rao said the Congress was threatening people with discontinuing welfare schemes unless they voted for the ruling party. He alleged that the Congress regime had crossed all limits of arrogance and was targeting the houses of the poor and BRS activists by misusing HYDRAA.
“A BRS activist, Sardar, was driven to suicide after his house was torn down for refusing to join the Congress. In Kukatpally, Buchamma lost her life fearing HYDRAA would demolish her house,” he said, adding that ordinary citizens were being harassed while illegal structures belonging to those close to the Chief Minister remained untouched. He questioned whether HYDRAA would dare act against the house of Revanth Reddy’s brother at Durgam Cheruvu.
Accusing the government of selective targeting, the BRS working president warned that a vote for Congress in Jubilee Hills would be like giving a license for further demolitions and harassment. He called on people to “crush the arrogance of Congress” by supporting the BRS candidate in the by-election.
Rama Rao also alleged that the Congress had betrayed minorities by scrapping schemes like Shaadi Mubarak and minority Gurukul schools. He pointed out that for the first time in history, a Congress government had no Minister from the minority community. “They are treating minorities only as a vote bank while cancelling scholarships and stalling development programmes,” he said.
He recalled that the BRS government had spent Rs 12,000 crore on minorities in the past decade.
The former Minister said Revanth Reddy was abandoning schemes like Rythu Bandhu, failing to enhance pensions, and going back on the promise of Rs 2,500 monthly assistance for women. He said the Congress was hiding its failures behind the excuse of mounting debts.
On the occasion, Rama Rao remembered late MLA Maganti Gopinath, whose untimely demise necessitated the Jubilee Hills by-election. He urged voters and the party cadre to support Gopinath’s family in the upcoming bypolls. He said surveys already showed the BRS ahead of the Congress across the constituency and urged party workers to campaign actively to secure a decisive majority.
Several senior leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra and Maganti Sunitha, wife of late Gopinath, took part in the meeting.
