Coming out of his self-imposed political hibernation, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has launched a blistering attack on the Congress government for its ‘miserable failure on all fronts’.
Chairing a joint meeting of the BRS Legislature Party and the party’s State executive at the party headquarters here, KCR announced an action programme to call the government to account not only on irrigation issues but also on all other sectors in which he said it had failed miserably.
“There will be no more niceties. We will roast the government alive. There is no need for us to remain silent. Why should we, when the interests of the people are at stake?” he declared.
“From tomorrow, it is going to be a different story altogether. This state government has failed on all fronts (sarva brashta prabhutvam).”
He announced that there would be an aggressive campaign against Congress rule in the state.
“There will be village-to-village mass movements and public meetings across Palamuru, Rangareddy and Nalgonda districts,” he said, adding that he would personally participate in the programmes to confront what he termed an “inactive and insensitive government” in the public domain.
“We will not let the government sleep. If it fails to protect the state’s interests, we will tear into it,” he said.
KCR’s combative posturing comes after a prolonged silence and inactivity as the BRS chief made no public appearances and largely remained incommunicado. This was despite an internal crisis in the regional party after his daughter K Kavitha raised a banner of revolt, targeting her close members including her elder brother K T Rama Rao and cousins T Harish Rao and Santosh Rao.
Breaking his silence, said he had exercised restraint for the past two years but could no longer remain silent as injustice to Telangana continued to mount. He alleged that the Revanth Reddy government has failed to implement the poll promises and thereby cheated the people.
He said the incumbent government remained a mute spectator when the Centre returned the DPR (Detailed Project Report) of the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme and, worse still, that the State government wrote to the Centre saying an allocation of 40 tmcft of water was sufficient.
He recalled that when the BRS was in power, it had sought an allocation of up to 170 tmcft, including an additional share of 40 tmcft on account of Andhra Pradesh diverting Godavari water to the Krishna through Pattiseema.
He said his party would now hold the government accountable at every step and confront it before the people. He said consultations with district leaders would begin within the next two to three days, followed by large-scale village-level meetings. Poets and folk singers would be mobilised to awaken public consciousness.
“We have remained quiet for too long. Not anymore. For Telangana, we are ready to fight anyone. We are not afraid,” he said, asking how he could stay silent when such “brazen wrongdoing” was unfolding.
KCR also took a swipe at the present government, alleging that it had failed to come up with even one policy that genuinely served the public interest.
“There is not even a single sound policy. The government appears more interested in illegal real estate dealings,” he charged.
Dismissing the ‘Future City’ concept, he said cities evolve over time and cannot be conjured up overnight. “You cannot build a city by merely pitching tents,” he remarked, recalling how Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad had grown gradually over decades.
He described the MoUs signed at the recent Global Summit in Hyderabad as a sham, likening them to the MoUs signed during the Partnership Summit held at a star hotel in Visakhapatnam during the Chandrababu Naidu-led government’s 2014 to 19 tenure.
“Those MoUs were signed by cooks of the hotel. These are no different,” he said.
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