Speaking to a small group of BRS leaders at his farmhouse, the party supremo said he can take on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy's abuses with worse abuses.
Published Nov 09, 2024 | 9:34 PM ⚊ Updated Nov 09, 2024 | 9:34 PM
K Chandrashekar Rao. (X)
Expressing confidence over coming back to power in Telangana, BRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao said governance was about construction and destruction.
Breaking his long silence on the Congress rule in the state on Saturday, 9 November, the former chief minister said he was 100 percent sure of bouncing back to power.
“We are coming to power. I am 100 percent sure. The BRS will form the next government. The people have understood what they had lost in just a matter of one year,” he said at his Erravalli farmhouse in the Siddipet district.
He was addressing leaders of the Palakurthy Assembly segment in the erstwhile Warangal district.
In an oblique reference to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, the BRS supremo said that governance meant construction and not destruction.
“A government should protect everyone and build a good society. You should not say I am going to pull down this structure or that building. The people have given you power not to demolish but to build,” the former chief minister said.
Rao added that when the BRS was in power, he had fulfilled more than 90 percent of the promises made in the manifesto. He urged BRS workers not to get agitated as the party was bound to come to power in the next elections.
Referring indirectly to Revanth Reddy’s often undignified remarks, the BRS chief said that it was no great feat.
“If I begin using abusive ends, it will continue till dawn tomorrow. We also know to hold ‘rowdy panchayats’. The rulers should protect the people and not intimidate them or frighten them,” the former chief minister said.
Rao asked the ruling dispensation to discharge its duties properly and responsibly.
“We are not afraid of arrests,” he said, obviously referring to the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s perceived move to prosecute his son and former minister KT Rama Rao over alleged financial irregularities in the conduct of Formula E races in Hyderabad.
The former chief minister’s outburst at the Telangana government was in apparent response to Revanth Reddy’s offensive while on his padayatra in the Nalgonda district on Friday.
The chief minister had said that the Musi Rejuvenation Project would be implemented despite opposition. Describing Rama Rao and T Harish Rao Billa and Ranga, Revanth Reddy had said that he would not mind running them over with a bulldozer if they tried to obstruct Musi Project.
Billa and Ranga refer to Jasbir Singh and Kuljeet Singh, respectively, who were hanged to death in 1982 for the murder of Geeta and her younger brother Sanjay Chopra on 26 August 1978 in Delhi. The convicts had raped Geeta, a 16-year-old student, before killing her.
Revanth Reddy dared Harish Rao to join him in the padayatra in the first week of January from Vadapalli, the point where Musi joins the Krishna River in Nalgonda district. The padayatra, he said, will culminate in a public meeting at Charminar.
“All those who opposed the Musi Project will die a dog’s death,” he said, which drew sharp reactions from BRS leaders on Friday night.
On Saturday, Chandrashekar Rao, who had been silent for a long time, came out attacking the Congress while addressing a small gathering of Palakurthi leaders.
It cannot be said that it signalled KCR coming out with all his guns blazing. However, for BRS workers, it was a positive development that he would lead an agitation against the Congress government from the front.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
