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BJP throws challenge to TRS
War of words between BJP and TRS continues. While the BJP has asked Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to decide time and venue for a debate on what the Centre has given to the state, Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao said that the BJP should prove its commitment to the people of Telangana by bifurcating the High Court and declaring one of the irrigation projects as a national project.
​Hyderabad: War of words between BJP and TRS continues. While the BJP has asked Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to decide time and venue for a debate on what the Centre has given to the state, Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao said that the BJP should prove its commitment to the people of Telangana by bifurcating the High Court and declaring one of the irrigation projects as a national project.
For the first time all the five BJP MLAs and a MLC addressed a press conference at the state office. Accepting the challenge, BJP president K Laxman said that the Chief Minister should stand by his word and resign from his position once the BJP proves him wrong.
The BJP leader said that the Chief Minister should either convene a special session of Assembly or ask his MPs to be ready for discussion in Parliament. “BJP accepts the challenge of KCR. Chief Minister should resign if he was committed to his word because our party will prove him wrong. We will keep the statistics before people of Telangana,” said Laxman.
Reacting strongly to the remarks of KCR, Laxman said that if anyone has to apologise, it was the Chief Minister as he had failed to keep his promise of making Dalit as chief minister of the state. The CM should apologise for insulting a Dalit by removing him from the post of Deputy Chief Minister without proving his fault.
He said KCR had also insulted the voters by saying that BJP MLAs had won because of confusion among voters during 2014 elections. If he feels that it was so, he should immediately make all those who had defected to TRS from other parties and go in for bye-elections. It will then become clear as to who is under confusion. He said the CM was suffering from sense of insecurity which made him to react in such a manner following the visit of BJP president.
Taking objection to KCR’s comments that even Lal Krishna Advani had insulted the people of Telangana in 2003, Laxman asked if that was the case, why did KCR attend NDA meeting in Jalandhar in 2004 uninvited and announce that NDA would come to power.
Laxman said that the Chief Minister was rattled with one visit of Amit Shah, what would happen if Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath come to Telangana.
BJP floor leader G Kishan Reddy said that the behaviour of the Chief Minister and his use of language were condemnable. He said that Telangana was a reality because of BJP and not because of TRS. He also criticised KCR’s comments that the seven mandals of Telangana were transferred to Andhra Pradesh by BJP.
He pointed out that the manifesto of TRS in 2014 had stated that it was the Congress that had transferred the mandals into Andhra Pradesh. Kishan Reddy said that KCR was ruling like a Nizam.
“Nizam used to run his government from his home and KCR was doing the same by not going to Secretariat. Nizam did not allow women to come out of their houses and KCR does not include them in his cabinet,” said Kishan Reddy.
