Rahul Gandhi: Congress ‘toofan' to blow BRS away in Telangana, will next dislodge Modi govt
Taking a potshot at both KCR and the BJP-led Union government, the Congress leader said the first aim of his party was to form a “people's government” in the state.
Claiming that Telangana is going to witness a ‘toofan’ (hurricane) of support for his party in the legislative Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (November 17) said that the ruling BRS would lose badly, after which his party will dislodge the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
Addressing a rally at Pinapaka in Khammam district, he alleged that the corruption of BRS can be seen all over the state.
He said the first aim of the Congress is to “make a people's government in Telangana” and after that “dislodge” the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. “KCR has come to know that a Congress ‘toofan’ is going to come in Telangana... Such a storm is going to come that KCR and his party would not be seen in Telangana,” Rahul said.
“Chief Minister (K Chandrasekhar Rao) asks what Congress party has done? Chief Minister saab, the school and college in which you studied, Congress made them. The roads on which you travel, Congress made those roads,” he pointed out.
Congress was able to achieve the development with the support of the youth of Telangana, Rahul said. It was Congress that delivered on the promise of Telangana statehood and made Hyderabad “the IT capital of the world”, he added.
“The fight is between ‘Dorala (feudal lords) Telangana and 'prajala' (people's) Telangana,” he went on, alleging that all the departments “where money is made", including liquor and sand, are in the hands of the “CM's family”.
The people saw the dream of a “people's Telangana” when they wanted a separate state but KCR is fulfilling the dream of only one family, Rahul further charged.
“The symbols of his (KCR's) corruption are seen in every corner of Telangana,” he remarked, accusing KCR of having “looted Rs 1 lakh crore from people” in the name of building the Kaleswaram project. Rahul had visited the Medigadda barrage of the Kaleswaram project recently following reports that the piers of the barrage had sunk.
Rahul further alleged that the BRS, BJP and the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM are working together, even as he recalled that the BRS had supported the Narendra Modi government in the Lok Sabha.
He accused the AIMIM of fielding its candidates wherever the Congress fights elections in order to help the BJP.
The electoral battle is between the Congress and the BRS, he said adding that the AIMIM and BJP are helping the BRS in the elections.
On the Congress's six guarantees promised for the people of Telangana, he said these assurances are not empty words like that of KCR and Narendra Modi.
“Our first aim is to make a people's government in Telangana. After that, we will dislodge the Narendra Modi government in Delhi (at the Centre),” he said.
(With agency inputs)
