Telangana: Congress is ‘All India Corruption Committee’, KTR retorts to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘BRS is BJP Rishtedar Samithi’ taunt

“Scared of facing the BRS directly, you tried to shoot at us off the BJP’s shoulder for support,” KTR said in a scathing attack on Gandhi for levelling charges at the BRS. “While doing so, the Congress is likely to shoot itself in its foot and go down,” he said.

He tried to ridicule Gandhi for saying that ₹1 lakh crore corruption had taken place while executing the Kaleshwaram Project.

మాది బీజేపీ బంధువుల పార్టీ కాదు..
మీదే భారత రాబందుల పార్టీ

ఏఐసీసీ అంటేనే…
అఖిల భారత కరప్షన్ కమిటీ
All India Corruption Committee

దేశంలో…
అవినీతికి, అసమర్థతకు..
ఒకే ఒక్క కేరాఫ్ అడ్రస్.. కాంగ్రెస్

స్కాములే తాచుపాములై..
మీ యూపీఏను.. దేశవ్యాప్తంగా కాంగ్రెస్ ను
దిగమింగిన…

— KTR (@KTRBRS) July 2, 2023

“How can corruption of ₹1 lakh crore take place for a project when its total value is less than ₹1 lakh crore? How many times do you want to remain a laughing stock before the public by making allegations that are sheer nonsense?” he asked.

KTR said that Telangana needed an Opposition that can play a constructive role but not one that does not even know the estimated project costs.

Also Read: Rahul Gandhi blows Congress poll bugle in Telangana

KTR rakes up Karnataka’s Anna Bhagya

Batting strongly for the continuation of Dharani, the BRS leader said that the people of Telangana would never forgive the Congress for repeating that it would wind up the initiative.

Dharani, Telangana’s land records management portal, simplified the procedures in the maintenance of land records, after carefully untangling the knots that had formed over the years, he said.

KTR also sought to know who would trust the Congress’s promise of paying ₹4,000 as pension to each senior citizen and widow after it went back on its promise of Anna Bhagya in Karnataka.

“Who will take that party’s declarations seriously which had promised ration to the people in the election but could not do it?” he asked.

The Anna Bhagya scheme was one of the five poll “guarantees” the Congress had made in Karnataka. The government could not roll it out after the Union government asked the Food Corporation of India not to sell good grains to states in the open market.

Subsequently, Karnataka approached rice-producing states, including Telangana, for the food grain.

Also Read: Anna Bhagya to roll out on 1 July: Cash now, millets with rice later

TINA factor in Karnataka

KTR also sought to downplay the Congress’s victory in Karnataka, saying that the defeat of the BJP was the achievement of the people and not that of the Congress.

Rahul Gandhi speaking in Khammam. (Twitter)

“The Congress won because there was no other alternative for the people there. The victory is not an indication of the Congress’s greatness or its efficiency,” he said.

KTR, who is also the BRS working president, asked Gandhi whether he was blind to the fact that podu land pattas were being distributed across the state in a festive atmosphere.

“If you have any problem with your eyesight, why don’t you get your them examined under the state government’s Kanti Velugu programme? Rahul should know that KCR was distributing 4.6 lakh acres of podu lands to the tribals, filling their lives with happiness,” he said.

KTR said that KCR had not only delivered to people water funds and jobs — the slogans of the Telangana movement — but also ensured that tribal leader Komaram Bheem’s dreams of jal, jungle, and zameen (water, forest, land) materialised.

He said the steering wheel of the car (BRS’s election symbol) is firmly in the hands of KCR and that it was Gandhi who lost control over the Congress.

The grand old party has already drowned in the Bay of Bengal while the BRS lives in the hearts of people. “Our nine-year rule is a journey in light. If the people trust the Congress known for the internecine quarrels, it would once again lead to chaos,” KTR said.

It’s ‘Scamgress’, says Harish Rao

Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao, too, took exception to Gandhi terming the BRS as the BJP’s B-Team.

He termed the BRS the “A-Team” for the poor, born to protect the country from the “clutches of the BJP” as the Congress has been unable to take on the country’s ruling party.

రాహుల్ గాంధీ గారు..

దేశాన్ని దోచుకున్న చరిత్ర మీది
అవినీతికి మారుపేరుగా మారిన పార్టీ మీది
అందుకే మీ పార్టీ పేరే స్కాంగ్రెస్‌గా మారింది
అందుకే దేశ ప్రజలు మిమ్మ‌ల్ని అధికారం నుంచి దించి మూల‌న కూర్చోబెట్టింది

బీఆర్‌ఎస్‌ ఎవరికీ బీ టీం కాదు..
మాది పేద ప్రజలకు ఏ టీం
ప్రజల…

— Harish Rao Thanneeru (@BRSHarish) July 2, 2023

Referring to Gandhi’s corruption allegations against the BRS, Harish Rao claimed that the people of the country dislodged Congress from power as it has become synonymous with corruption.

“Your party’s name itself has become ‘Scamgress’,” he said in a statement on Sunday night.

It is a “joke” to allege corruption to the tune of ₹1 lakh crore in Kaleshwaram project as the total cost of the project is ₹80,321.57 crore, Harish Rao, a nephew of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, said.

Recalling the death of eight people in police firing in Khammam when the Congress was in power in 2007 in undivided Andhra Pradesh during a bandh called by the Left parties as part of ‘land for landless poor’ agitation, Harish Rao said people would not believe the glib talk of Congress.

(With PTI inputs).