Former MP Boora Narsaiah Goud also predicted a comfortable win for the BJP in the upcoming Munugode by-election.
Published Oct 20, 2022 | 6:14 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 20, 2022 | 6:14 PM
Former TRS MP Boora Narsaiah Goud with Amit Shah after he formally joined the BJP. (Narsaiah Goud/Facebook)
Former TRS MP and noted gastroenterologist Boora Narsaiah Goud, who formally joined the BJP in New Delhi on Wednesday, 19 October, has predicted that the saffron party would win the next Assembly elections in Telangana as people were disillusioned with the “dictatorial rule” of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
Narsaiah Goud, speaking to media persons on Thursday after visiting the BJP office in Nampally in Hyderabad for the first time, said that his prediction would come true as all those who were actively involved in the Telangana movement had already left the TRS.
KCR is now surrounding himself with traitors of Telangana, the former MP said.
Rubbing the point in, Narsaiah Goud said that when he visited the BJP office, he was pleasantly surprised to see all those with whom he had worked shoulder-to-shoulder during the Telangana movement.
The coming together of all the Telangana forces is an indication of the imminent fall of KCR in the next elections as he had turned dictator and shut himself up in Pragati Bhavan, he said.
He also predicted a comfortable win for the BJP in the upcoming Assembly bypoll in Munugode, adding that it would herald a new chapter in Telangana’s political history.
Till recently a staunch TRS supporter, the former MP, who lost the 2019 election in his Bhongir Lok Sabha constituency, was reportedly hoping to be picked as the TRS candidate in Munugode.
In his resignation letter to KCR, he, however, said that though he was “not interested in contesting from Munugode”, what hurt him most was the way he was ignored while the party finalised the candidate.
He said he had not been invited to the Atma Gourava Sabhas, which the party had been conducting, just because he had said the Munugode ticket should go to a Backward Classes (BC) candidate instead of a Reddy.
“It pains me to see that the BCs remain discriminated against economically and in the share of political power. I have been working for the party’s interests till now as I was thankful to you for what you have done to me,” he said.
A sizeable section of the electorate in Munugode is BC, but the contest in the constituency is between three Reddys: The BJP’s Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy, the sitting Congress MLA who resignastion from the party and the Assembly necessitated the bypoll, K Prabhakara Reddy of the TRS, and Palvai Sravanthi of the Congress, daughter of late Rajya Sabha MP Palvai Govardhan Reddy.
In Thursday’s interaction with the media, Boora Narsaiah said KCR’s days are numbered as people will retaliate and fight against him.
“Telangana people are born fighters. It has been evidenced in the recent Telangana movement and during the armed struggle of the Telangana peasantry,” he said.
The verdict in Munugode will be against KCR because of his “arrogance” in not developing the constituency as it was represented by K Rajagopal Reddy who did not belong to TRS.
When he resigned, development works came to the constituency in a flood, he said.
