ECI double standards? KTR cites inaction against PM Modi, Amit Shah and prompt action against KCR

The BRS working president said not only BJP's social media activists but even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was spewing venom at Muslims.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published May 03, 2024 | 7:00 AM ⚊UpdatedMay 03, 2024 | 7:00 AM

File photo of KTR.

File photo of KTR. (KTRTRS/Facebook)

Cut to the quick with the order of the Election Commission of India (ECI) barring BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao from campaigning for two days, party working president KT Rama Rao on Thursday, 2 May, accused the poll body of working at the behest of BJP.

He told reporters at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad that the ECI was eager to act against BRS.

However, it was always silent when it came to taking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah, though they were sowing seeds of discord among those practising different religions.

Related: ECI bans BRS chief KCR from campaigning for 48 hours 

Pointing out violations

KTR said BJP’s social media activists were spewing venom at Muslims while the prime minister himself was saying Muslims alone beget more children than others.

Though there were as many as 20,000 complaints, the ECI did not even issue any notice to the prime minister, he alleged.

He said it appeared the ECI, afraid of Modi, had served a notice on BJP president JP Nadda instead.

Though Amit Shah used the pictures of Hindu gods in his campaign, the ECI did not take any action against him, said the BRS leader.

Shah was seeking votes from his official handle on X (formerly Twitter), which has Lord Ram as the display picture.

The ECI, on the other hand, was quick to take action against KCR though he was within his limits in raising the issues of Telangana, said KTR.

At a Sircilla meeting, KCR had said the drought that was affecting Telangana was man-made.

He was reacting to the complaints of weavers that there were no orders for them to weave sarees for the Bathukamma festival, and took to task a leader who said the Telangana people should eke out a living by selling condoms and papads.

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‘Revanth Reddy’s words sacrosanct?’

KTR also said that though his party had lodged innumerable complaints against Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, there was no action against him.

The chief minister had used abusive language against KCR while addressing an election rally at Thukkuguda.

“Are the words Revanth Reddy is using pure, pious, and sacrosanct? Are they parables or moral principles?” thundered the BRS working president.

“We have so far lodged 27 complaints against Revanth Reddy but the ECI had not acted on even one complaint,” he said.

The BRS leader added that all the ECI had done was admonish Minister Konda Surekha for making some derogatory comments against him.

Related: ‘Illegal’, says KTR as Hyderabad police arrest BRS leader Krishank Manne

Taking on both BJP, Congress

He also said that BJP and Congress had developed cold feet watching the kind of response that KCR was evoking from the people during his campaign.

KCR had uncovered the nexus between “Chhota Bhai and Bada Bhai (younger brother and older brother)”.

They were worried over the predictions of poll surveys that the BRS would get more than 12 Lok Sabha seats, he added.

Referring to the controversy over the notice issued that Osmania University (OU) hostels were being shut down for one month on account of water and power shortage, KTR said KCR had reacted to it saying that the government was incompetent in dealing with the problem.

This, according to him, led to a chain of events including the issuing of a show-cause notice to the chief warden of the hostels, and making the power utility say that there was no shortfall in the supply of electricity to the university.

Revanth Reddy, after KCR called the government incompetent, posted a fake order from 2023 — when BRS was in power — in which it was stated that the hostels would be shut down because of problems in power and water supply.

The OU students themselves posted the original, in which there was no mention of a shortage in water or power supply, KTR said, declaring that there were no problems in the OU when the BRS was in power, but there were problems now.

KTR also said BRS leader Manne Krishank was arrested when he pointed out that Revanth Reddy had posted a fake document. “Who should get the punishment? Krishank or Revanth Reddy,” he asked.

He also vowed to get Krishank out by battling it out in court. He wanted to know why no action was being taken against Revanth Reddy for posting a fake document.

(Edited by Arkadev Ghoshal)

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