KTR dares Revanth Reddy for open debate on Hyderabad’s development record

BRS working president KT Rama Rao has thrown down the gauntlet to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, inviting him to a public debate on Hyderabad’s development under their respective regimes. Unveiling the Jubilee Hills Progress Report, KTR accused Congress of reversing gains made under BRS rule, citing stalled infrastructure, rising crime, and urban mismanagement.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday dared Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for an open debate on Hyderabad’s development during the 10 years of BRS rule versus the two years of Congress governance. He asked the Chief Minister to fix the date, time and place for the debate.

“Let’s settle who developed Hyderabad and who ruined it. I am ready to come anywhere, whether it is his Jubilee Hills palace, the Integrated Command Control Centre, Gandhi Bhavan or the Assembly. If Revanth Reddy is honest and courageous, let him come for a debate. The people will see who has delivered and who has destroyed,” he said.

Unveiling the Jubilee Hills Constituency Progress Report at Telangana Bhavan, Rama Rao said the Chief Minister was speaking out of frustration after sensing defeat in the Jubilee Hills by-election.

“We can speak to him in a language he understands, but we choose restraint out of respect for his office, even if he does not respect it himself,” he asserted.

Explaining Hyderabad’s transformation under the BRS regime, he said the K Chandrashekhar Rao government had built 42 flyovers and underpasses, while the Congress had neither laid a single new road nor filled even a single pothole.

He ridiculed the Chief Minister for merely inaugurating projects completed under the BRS rule without executing any new works. The Swachh Hyderabad initiative had turned the city into a model for urban governance, introducing thousands of Swachh autos and collecting 7.5 metric tonnes of garbage daily.

“Hyderabad won 30 national and several international awards as India’s most liveable city. Now, Congress has turned it into a cesspool,” he said, pointing out that the Congress government was billing citizens for water that was supplied for free during the BRS regime and forcing people to depend again on water tankers. The Chandrashekhar Rao government had built one lakh double-bedroom houses in Hyderabad, while the Congress regime demolished thousands without building new ones.

Rama Rao reminded that the BRS had completed the Hyderabad Metro Rail, ensured 24-hour power supply, and illuminated Telangana with LED installations.

“Now, power cuts are back. Show us one LED installed by your government,” he said, also slamming Revanth Reddy for intimidating L&T officials connected to the Metro project and forcing them to exit the project.

The BRS government had developed over 16,000 nurseries across Telangana, while Congress had cut trees and damaged biodiversity in its alleged plan to sell Hyderabad Central University land worth Rs 10,000 crore at Kancha Gachibowli.

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On law and order, the former IT Minister pointed out that the crime rate in Hyderabad rose by 41 percent under Congress rule, with daylight murders and threats to industrialists becoming routine.

“The IT workforce grew from three lakh to nine lakh under BRS. Now, investors are fleeing due to the Congress misrule. Mumbai police seized drugs worth thousands of crores from Cherlapally. Can there be a bigger shame?” he asked, urging the voters of Jubilee Hills to judge development records, not rhetoric.

“We will show what we achieved. If Congress has done anything substantive in two years, let them explain it publicly. Otherwise, people will give their verdict on November 11,” he said.