Poll debate must be on Congress governance, not Revanth Reddy’s abusive politics: KTR

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has urged party workers to focus municipal election campaigns on civic issues and the Congress government’s unfulfilled promises, accusing Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of using abusive rhetoric to divert attention from governance failures.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao appealed to party workers and voters to keep the municipal election discussions focused on the Congress governance and people’s grievances. He wanted them not to be drawn into Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s abusive politics, calling it a diversionary tactic.

In a message to party workers and supporters, Rama Rao said the elections should be about basic civic issues such as roads, drainage, drinking water, sanitation and delivery of welfare schemes at the ward level. He said the Chief Minister was deliberately diverting attention from these issues through provocative rhetoric to escape accountability.

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“The real discussion should be about the six guarantees, not one of which has been fully implemented,” he said, calling upon party workers to turn the elections into a platform to question the Congress government’s unfulfilled promises over the last two years.

The BRS working president said personal attacks on BRS chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao amounted to an assault on the Telangana statehood movement itself. He reminded that Chandrashekhar Rao led a 14-year struggle for statehood and later guided Telangana on the path of development as its first Chief Minister for a decade.

“Attempts to malign KCR are aimed at masking the present government’s poor performance and corruption,” he remarked.

Rama Rao urged party activists to raise public issues during the door-to-door campaign. He pointed to farmers waiting in long queues for fertilisers, delays in Rythu Bharosa assistance forcing farmers to borrow from private lenders. He also cited students suffering due to non-payment of fee reimbursement, children falling ill in residential schools, pensioners struggling to get their retirement benefits, and employees waiting for DA and PRC decisions.

The former Minister called for questions on alleged irregularities in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) tenders and in power sector contracts. He went on to accuse the Congress government of compromising Telangana’s interests in inter-State river water sharing.

“The people’s verdict alone is the real honour for KCR,” he declared, urging voters to compare the development achieved during the ten years of BRS rule, with poor governance over the last two years of the Congress regime. He appealed to voters to use the municipal elections to send a clear message to the Congress government by rejecting empty rhetoric and diversionary tactics by demanding accountability.