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BJP chief JP Nadda appeals to Telangana people to end TRS rule in state

Nadda, at the Hanamkonda public meeting on 27 August, tore into KCR's rule accusing him of using the Kaleshwaram Project as an ATM.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published Aug 27, 2022 | 6:43 PM ⚊UpdatedAug 27, 2022 | 7:56 PM

BJP Chief JP Nadda and Telangana BJP MP Bandi Sanjay Badhrakali temple on Saturday, 27 August. (bandisanjay_bjp/Twitter)

BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday, 27 August, made an impassioned plea to the people to send Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao home packing in the next Assembly elections.

Addressing a public meeting at Hanamkonda, organised to mark the end of the third phase of the Praja Sangrama Yatra of BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Nadda said, “The purpose of the Praja Sangrama Yatra is to end the rule of the KCR family in the state.”

Nadda, after arriving in Hanamkonda, first drove to Bhadrakali temple where he offered special prayers along with party state in charge Tarun Chug, Union Minister for Culture G Kishan Reddy, and Bandi Sanjay.

He then visited the residence of retired professor Venkataranarayana, who took part in the Telangana struggle, apparently to send out a message that the BJP cared for those who fought for Telangana, unlike KCR who is alleged to have sidelined them.

Nadda, who spoke for a brief while, however, tore into KCR’s rule, accusing him of using the Kaleshwaram Project as an ATM. “The estimate of Kaleshwaram Project which was originally ₹40,000 crore had been inflated to ₹1.4 lakh crore only to convert it into a money minting machine for KCR. He is now very much ruffled as he knows that he had resorted to several acts of corruption,” he said.

The BJP leader said that KCR had utilised only ₹200 crore of the ₹3,500 crore of central funds meant for Jal Jeevan Mission.

The construction of the multi-specialty hospital promised for Warangal has not yet begun though the inmates of the jail had been shifted away as it was where the new hospital is supposed to come up.

Taking serious exception to the impediments that the TRS government was creating for the BJP to prevent it from organising protests, he drew a parallel to last Hyderabad Nizam Osman Ali Khan who also imposed similar restrictions.

The government had tried to stop Bandi Sanjay from taking out his padayatra, showing lack of permission as the reason, and denying permission for today’s public meeting.

The BJP had to take recourse to a legal remedy for organising its democratic protests, he said.

Nadda sought to drive home the point that it was the BJP which had fought for the creation of a separate Telangana state. “We had passed a resolution at the state executive at Kakinada that the state should be divided, much before the Telangana agitation gained currency.