BRS leader KTR on the BJP: No alliance in the past, and there will be none in the future

The allegations against the BRS are that it has always helped the saffron party in times of need, notwithstanding the pink party’s public posturing that the BJP was an Opposition party.

తెలంగాణ భవన్ లో ప్రారంభమైన బీఆర్‌ఎస్‌ పార్టీ భువనగిరి లోక్‌సభ నియోజకవర్గ సన్నాహక సమావేశం.

ఈ సమావేశంలో బీఆర్ఎస్ వర్కింగ్ ప్రెసిడెంట్ కేటీఆర్, మాజీ మంత్రులు జగదీష్ రెడ్డి, సింగిరెడ్డి నిరంజన్ రెడ్డి, మాజీ స్పీకర్ పోచారం శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి, భువనగిరి పార్లమెంట్ నియోజకవర్గం పరిధిలోని… pic.twitter.com/2sujDHrqS5

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‘No electoral pact’

Rejecting the allegation, KTR said: “The BRS can never be the BJP’s B-team. We did not have any electoral pact with it in the past, and there will be none in the future.”

He said that in the recent Assembly elections, the BRS defeated three MPs and two MLAs of the BJP.

BRS chief and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao never had any truck with the saffron party in his public life of 45 years, KTR said of his father.

“If the BRS were the B-team of the BJP, would the central agencies have summoned BRS MLC K Kavitha for questioning in the Delhi liquor scam?” he asked about his sister.

He also pointed out that if they did not arrest her, it was because of the intervention of the Supreme Court and not because of any compromise with the BJP.

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KTR targets Congress as well

The BRS leader also sought to turn the tables on the Congress, accusing it of cutting a covert deal with the saffron party to defeat the BRS.

He said: “In the last Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-BJP duo defeated the BRS in some constituencies. Even in the by-elections for the Assembly, the shady understanding between two parties became very clear.”

KTR said it was because of this alliance between the Congress and the BJP that the Election Commission issued notifications separately for the election of two MLCS under the MLA quota.

He added that the method of election of the MLCs changed overnight after Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

“Though we moved the high court against the injustice, we could not get a favourable order,” he said.

Lashing out at the BJP for pushing its communal agenda for electoral gains, KTR said that the BRS would have won the recent elections as well had it distributed the Yadadri temple’s sacred rice (akshintalu) in Bhongir and Nalgonda.

“BJP leaders are political Hindus, but KCR regarded Hinduism as Hinduism and never saw it through a political prism,” he said, adding that the BRS was the only genuine secular party in Telangana.