KTR urges Jubilee Hills electorate to pick ‘car’ over ‘bulldozer’

BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao accused CM Revanth Reddy of betrayal, corruption, and demolitions ahead of the Jubilee Hills bypoll, urging voters to reject Congress’s “false promises” and restore development under BRS leadership by electing candidate Maganti Sunitha.

Hyderabad: With the Jubilee Hills assembly by-election just days away, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao turned up the heat on the ruling Congress government, accusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of betraying voters with unkept promises and reckless demolitions. Speaking at a meeting of party workers in Telangana Bhavan on Sunday, he welcomed a group of senior BJP leaders from the Shaikpet division into the BRS fold while calling the by-election a showdown between “deceit and reality”.

BJP’s Cheruku Mahesh and other local leaders joined the BRS in his presence. He appealed to the gathering to make use of the opportunity in the bypoll to teach the Congress leadership a lesson. The Jubilee Hills residents must decide if they want the car or the bulldozer. If they want the car back, a nod to BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha will fulfill their wish, he said.
Slamming Congress for what he called a wave of demolition of shelters of the poor across Hyderabad, he said this wasn’t just about two candidates.

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“It is about teaching Congress a lesson for failing on every front,” Rama Rao said, pointing to the Congress Party’s manifesto, which he claimed included 420 promises that remained unfulfilled in the two years since Congress assumed power.

“They’ve been in charge for two years now – who can deny that? And what do they have to show? Not a single house built, not one brick laid, but they’ve piled up loans worth Rs 2.3 lakh crore.” Making a sharp attack on Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, he said the Chief Minister had spent his term “just chanting KCR’s name” instead of delivering results. He accused the government of pocketing corruption money and spending it on vote-buying in Jubilee Hills, with whispers of Rs 10,000 per vote doing the rounds. “If Congress loses this one, you’ll finally see those Rs 4,000 monthly pensions roll out,” he said.

“All those six guarantees they came with have turned out to be pure lies to climb to power. While failing to repair the roads that were battered by rains in the State, Revanth Reddy is busy sending bulldozers to smash the homes of the shelterless, even yesterday and the day before. Courts, legal papers? They don’t care. This is what happens when you hand power to someone who thinks he can fool people forever,” Rama Rao said, warning the people that a Congress win would embolden more such actions, while a BRS victory would signal a return to development under former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao.

Calling BJP a “useless party” in Telangana, he likened the votes for either Congress or BJP to “throwing your ballot in the trash”.

He highlighted the Congress betrayals on key issues, including the 42 percent BC reservations, where a government order was, as expected, struck down by the court after being passed in the Assembly instead of the Parliament.
“Promises like an MLC seat for former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin and a Muslim graveyard in the constituency would go the same way. The land offered for a Muslim graveyard was actually Army land. Revanth Reddy knows how to deceive the people. The Chief Minister has proved what will happen if the people believe in liars,” he said.