Rahul Gandhi should become the Prime Minister to ensure a pro-poor government in the country, said the Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday, alleging that if Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidates, probably will take a subordinate role to the BJP if its candidates secure Lok Sabha seats. He then added that the BJP engages in divisive politics.
Reddy, while signalling the beginning of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections during a rally in Indervelly, Adilabad district, also expressed intentions to invite AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to unveil the Congress party's electoral promise of providing LPG cylinders at Rs 500.
About one lakh women are expected to attend the meeting. He announced that 15,000 posts of constable would be filled up in 15 days, while the promise of providing free electricity to the poor, up to 200 units would also be launched soon. Reddy, who made a sharp attack on the BRS and its president and former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, said there are only two major political groupings in the country - the NDA led by BJP and the INDIA bloc.
Rao, also known as KCR, would not be allowed into the INDIA bloc, he said. Even if the BRS wins a few MP seats, Rao would make them play second fiddle to the BJP, he alleged.
Revanth Reddy also claimed that PM Modi has not fulfilled promises like depositing Rs 15 lakh in the accounts of the poor, housing for all, creating of two crore jobs every year, and doubling farmers' income.
The BJP seeks votes in the name of religion and it is only the Congress that can provide a pro-poor government in the country, he said. Recalling the "sacrifices of former PMs Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi for the country", he said Rahul Gandhi, who took out a 'padayatra' from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, should become the Prime Minister.
Hitting out at the BRS, he alleged that BRS leaders only looted the state during the previous BRS regime and put a debt burden of Rs seven lakh crore on the state. Chandrasekhar Rao made his daughter K Kavitha MLC when she lost the 2019 Lok Sabha poll but did not provide jobs to the unemployed women. Some people stated that KCR would become Chief Minister again and that the Congress government would collapse, he said people would not spare those who think of destabilising the government, he said.
KCR would not become the Chief Minister again, he claimed. Referring to a so-called religious guru who purchased an island, Reddy said KCR has to announce himself as "king" by purchasing an island in a similar fashion.
The BRS government did not carry out repairs to irrigation projects like Kadem in Adilabad and failed to carry out development activities in Adilabad district, he added. Reddy chose to address the rally at Indervelly as he held his first public meeting at the same place after becoming PCC president three years ago. The CM attended development programmes and offered prayers at the Keslapur Nagoba temple during his visit.
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