KCR luring Congress leaders with contracts bait: VH

​Hyderabad: Congress senior leader and MP V Hanumantha Rao said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was trying to weaken the foothold of the Congress in Nalgonda district by luring its leaders with contracts in irrigation projects.

While reacting to the news that former MP Vivek and his brother, along with G Sukhender Reddy and MLA N Bhaskar Rao, will be officially joining the ruling TRS, he said Chandrashekar Rao was under the grip of feeling of insecurity like his counterpart of AP, hence he was trying the decimate the Opposition.

But this cannot be attained, as things would change by the next one year and tables would be turned, he said. “He may not be unaware of the fact that our men have started digging up holes like bandicoots and within one year things would change,” he said.

While referring to the words 'political prostitutes' of Gutha Sukender Reddy, he said the latest defectors from the Congress including the MP were of this kind.

He alleged that the MP was eyeing contracts in irrigation projects in Nalgonda district. He said that the leaders had turned opportunistic and were leaving the party at ‘hard times’. He felt that the leaders had enjoyed their clout, when the Congress was in power and now that things had changed they were leaving the party.

Hanumantha Rao recalled how Sukender Reddy had received the MP ticket despite being cautioned by Uttam Kumar Reddy. He said the leader had let down former minister S Jaipal Reddy who had lobbied for his ticket for the first time.

“He joined the party only to get contract for his son-in-law Amit Reddy whose father Sudarshan Reddy owns the company named VARCS,” the senior leader stated.

About Vivek and his brother, he lamented that if their father G Venkatswamy were alive, he would have never agreed to this. “They have not only betrayed their father who died a staunch Congress worker, but also their mother (Congress),” he lamented.