What’s wrong in BJP MP Arvind wishing Sridhar Babu to become Telangana Chief Minister: Mahesh Kumar Goud

TPCC president says like Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, the Industries Minister played a crucial role in the development of the State

Hyderabad: Making a surprising statement that would raise many eyebrows in Gandhi Bhavan, TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud said there was nothing wrong in BJP MP D Arvind’s comments that Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu was eligible to be the Chief Minister.

“If Sridhar Babu and D Arvind were good friends and what’s wrong in one friend wishing his friend to become a Chief Minister,” he asked.

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Like Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, the Industries Minister played a crucial role in the development of the State. It was the Chief Minister and Sridhar Babu, who had secured investments to the State during their foreign trips, Mahesh Kumar Goud stressed at a press conference here on Friday.

The TPCC president said the Rs 10,000 crore raised by TGIIC through bonds by mortgaging 400 acres at Kancha Gachibowli were used for crop loan waiver and bonus for paddy.

He claimed that the 400 acres at Kancha Gachibowli were government lands and the same were allotted to TGIIC at Rs 75 crore per acre.

In turn, TGIIC had raised Rs.10,000 crore through bonds in association with ICICI Bank, he admitted.

“The Telangana Congress offered Rs 10,000 crore to farmers. Unable to stomach this, BRS working president KT Rama Rao was making an unwanted issue,” Mahesh Kumar Goud said.

Countering the BRS working president’s charges on misuse of Rs 175 crore, the TPCC president said it was all white money. It was an official transaction, he explained.

Government floated tenders as agency services were required to raise loans. It was a general practice to hire agencies and there was no scam as being claimed by Rama Rao, he defended.

Opposition parties have been claiming that they were forest land and the Central Empowered Committee visited and found bushes in the land. Using fake images and videos created by AI, people were being misled over the lands, he charged.

The TPCC president challenged the BRS working president for a debate on the destruction of land and scams during the BRS tenure.

“If new IT and corporate companies come up in the 400 acres, five lakhs jobs will be created,” Mahesh Kumar Goud said.