Hyderabad: Making his first public appearance in a very long time, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, on Sunday, December 21, criticised both Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party for ‘betraying’ Telangana.
The party supremo held a press conference at Telangana Bhavan to highlight the failed promises of the Congress government in Telangana. KCR said that Congress is preoccupied with real estate deals with no other focus.
Stating that danger has befallen Telangana ever since the Congress came to power, KCR said that public meetings will be organised in Palamuru, Rangareddy, and Nalgonda districts to give Telangana’s farmers their share of Krishna and Godavari water.
He said that the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Project was sent back by the Centre under Congress’s rule and criticised them for not being able to protect the state’s interests.
“The Palamuru district was entitled to 174 TMC feet of water for irrigation projects, but the Congress compromised with the Centre for just 40 TMC,” he claimed.
The veteran leader stated that the BJP-led Central government has always opposed Telangana’s development. “Ever since Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), several of Telangana’s projects have been blocked by the Centre,” he alleged.
KCR on urea crisis in Telangana
Addressing the urea crisis in Telangana, the former CM said that while the BRS was in power, farmers did not have to stand in long queues fighting over fertilisers, but matters have changed drastically with Congress in power.
While speaking at the joint meeting of the BRS Legislature Party and the party’s State executive committee before the press conference, KCR condemned the recent attacks on BRS cadre, saying his government had never resorted to intimidation or violence against the opposition.
He said under the Congress, politics had descended into coercion and intimidation, eroding democratic principles.
“We have endured for the past two years and will not remain silent anymore,” he said amongst cheers.
