Showing posts with label telangana assembly elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telangana assembly elections. Show all posts

KCR 'insecure', walking the same path as Congress: PM Modi in Telangana

PM Modi was addressing a poll rally in Nizamabad ahead of the December 7 Assembly elections. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)
Addressing his first poll rally in Telangana ahead of the December 7 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao by saying that he was walking on the same path as the Congress party. 
"Telangana chief minister and his family think they can rule without doing any work like the Congress did for years," said Modi at the poll rally. 
He added, "The chief minister of this state is walking on Congress' path. He thinks that if Congress can win elections without doing anything, he too can do it. But he must know that youth of the state are aware of the ground realities."
He also accused the TRS and Congress of perpetuating family rule. "TRS and Congress are family-ruled parties playing a friendly match in Telangana polls," he said.
Speaking about Nizamabad, from where he was addressing the rally, Modi said, "The CM had said he will transform Nizamabad into London city. But look at the condition of this region. The place lacks basic facilities like water, roads and power."
PM Modi also rapped the TRS government in regards to the Ayushmaan Bharat scheme which was launched in September to provide medical facilities on a massive scale to the poor. 
However, the Telangana govt had said that it won't implement the scheme, for now, citing an already existing state scheme.
"Telangana CM did not join Ayushman Bharat scheme because he feels insecure. The scheme was launched two months ago and three lakh families have availed its benefits. Serious operations have been done, people's lives have been saved. Yet, not a single person from Telangana has availed its benefits.Your CM is responsible for it," said PM Modi. 
Amid reports that the Congress was preparing a manifesto that would envisage separate schools and hospitals for Muslims, Modi said the only Mantra that the BJP followed was "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas" and was against vote bank politics.  Though indirectly Telengana former Chief Minister has accepted his defeat when he says "on loosing power, I will rest." means neither he nor his government done nothing in public welfare. He has no car but his properties increased by141 percent.

‘Govt inaccessible’: Key TRS MP quits party with 3-page criticism note

In a three-page letter addressed to TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, Reddy mentioned that the party was getting distanced more and more from the people which it had once represented and the government was becoming inaccessible to the people. (Photo: File)
Ahead of December 7 assembly elections, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) faced a set back when its parliamentarian Konda Vishweshwar Reddy resigned from the party on November 20.
Reddy, the richest MP from Telangana with declared assets of over Rs 528 crore, represents Chevella parliamentary constituency in Ranga Reddy district.
Reddy also announced that he was quitting his Lok Sabha membership. It is not immediately known whether the MP has any plans to join the Congress or any other party.
In a three-page letter addressed to TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, Reddy mentioned that the party was getting distanced more and more from the people which it had once represented and the government was becoming inaccessible to the people.
Reddy added that he regretted that the chief minister had inducted people who were against Telangana.  “I feel people who had fought for Telangana and shared a common ideology, including me, are no longer needed in the party,” he said.
MP stated that he felt powerless within the party; he could not speak out or take action as he was bound by the party discipline.
It is believed that Reddy is upset with TRS leadership for sidelining him and giving more importance to transport minister P Mahendar Reddy.
Apart from Reddy, another TRS MP, Sitaram Naik from Mahubabad, is also learnt to be unhappy with the TRS encouraging an IPS officer Lakshman Naik and planning to deny him the seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.