Telangana’s future at stake in Jubilee Hills bypoll, says KTR

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao said the Jubilee Hills bypoll would decide Telangana’s future, accusing the Congress of running a “joint venture” with the BJP. He urged voters to back BRS candidate Maganti Sunitha and accused the State government of betraying minorities and the poor.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao said on Friday that the Jubilee Hills by-election would decide Telangana’s future, urging voters to deliver a victory for BRS once again and teach the Congress government a lesson for its deceptive politics. The Revanth Reddy government was running a Congress-BJP joint venture in Telangana, he said.

Addressing a booth-level meeting of Erragadda division in Jubilee Hills constituency at Telangana Bhavan here, Rama Rao tore into the Congress regime, accusing it of joining hands with the BJP to defeat former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and weaken Telangana’s voice. “Congress and BJP have a common goal, which is to defeat KCR. If BRS is weakened, BJP can play football with Congress,” he said.

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He ridiculed the Congress’s pre-election assurances and stated that the party had promised the moon with tall claims of pensions, scooters and gold under Kalyana Lakshmi.

“There are no scooties, no pensions or no gold. Only loot,” he said, cautioning that a vote for the Congress in the Jubilee Hills bypoll would only embolden it to intensify its anti-people actions.

The BRS working president warned that the poor now live in fear of bulldozers, recalling the suicide of a woman in Kukatpally over demolition fears.

“KCR never demolished a poor person’s house. He gave house pattas to around one lakh families and also constructed another one lakh double-bedroom houses in Hyderabad. But under the Congress regime, no houses were built. Instead, bulldozers targeted the poor, while Ministers’ illegal mansions remained untouched,” he added.

Rama Rao accused the Congress of betraying minorities, pointing out that for the first time, the State government had no Muslim minister, MLA, or MLC. He slammed the Revanth Reddy government for implementing Modi’s Waqf amendments and also denying tickets to Muslim leaders like Aamir Ali and Md Azharuddin.

“Muslims must question why the Congress bowed before the BJP on Waqf issues,” he said.

Calling the Revanth Reddy regime a Congress-BJP joint venture, the former Minister stated that in stark contrast to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations, the Chief Minister was supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his crony capitalist Gautam Adani, while using CBI to attack KCR. “Revanth Reddy said his schooling was in BJP, college education in TDP and was working under Rahul Gandhi in the Congress. But in truth, he failed in KCR’s high school,” he said.

Seeking support for Maganti Sunitha, wife of late MLA Maganti Gopinath, Rama Rao said Hyderabad voters, especially in Jubilee Hills, had always stood with the BRS, which developed Hyderabad into a global city. He hoped that their support would continue in the bypolls.

“The bypoll verdict will decide whether Telangana continues with dignity or falls to betrayal,” he remarked.