Corrupt won’t be spared, says PM Modi a day after BRS MLC Kavitha’s arrest

Modi’s statement also laid bare the BJP’s intention of occupying the BRS’s political space after pushing it to the fringes, beginning with the Lok Sabha elections.

“I want your support as I continue with my crusade against corruption. I want the blessings of youth, workers, women, and sisters of Telangana in my endeavour,” he told the massive crowd at the Scheduled Caste (SC)-reserved constituency of Nagarkurnool in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district.

Modi equated the BRS with the Congress, which he said was involved in several scams. He labelled them as partners in scams and referred to the Congress’s alleged 2G and BRS’s “water” (Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme) scams. “Both parties are equally guilty of protecting the land mafia,” the prime minister said.

“The Congress and the BRS are relishing the bread of corruption. This is the characteristic of parivarvadi (dynastic) parties,” he said. He, however, said he has no parivar (family) of his own as the entire 140 crore Indians are his family.

“I have never used my position as the prime minister for my benefit. I have been working night and day for my 140 crore parivar,” he said to a round of applause.

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Bid to woo SCs

In an apparent bid to woo the SC communities, he referred to how the upper-caste ministers in the Congress had humiliated the SC deputy chief minister, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.

“They (Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and other upper-caste ministers) had made the deputy chief minister sit on a stool less in height compared to those that they occupied at a ritual in a temple in Telangana recently,” he said, adding that it amounted to humiliating the SC community.

Drawing a parallel between the BRS and the Congress, the prime minister recalled how KCR had expressed his desire to rewrite the Indian Constitution with scant regard to its architect, Babasaheb BR Ambedkar.

“KCR threw dust into the eyes of the Dalit by floating the Dalit Bandhu,” he said and felt that it was such a class of people that had tried to throw a spanner in the election of Ambedkar. “It was again this class that had tried to prevent a tribal leader, Droupadi Murmu, from becoming the President of India,” the prime minister said.

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State getting destroyed

“The Congress and the BRS were like the millstones in a flour mill. The people of the state and their dreams, caught between them, have been grounded to powder. Both parties are partners in crime and are also partners in betraying the interests of the people,” Modi said.

The prime minister said nothing had changed in the past 10 years in Telangana. “Now that the Congress has come to power, it is like a transition from bad to worse,” he said, stressing that if it had taken BRS 10 years to ruin the state, it may not take more than five years for the Congress to destroy it completely.

Modi urged the people to help the BJP win seats in double digits in Telangana just as the way they had supported the saffron party in doubling its vote share in the 2023 Assembly elections.

He said if the people had helped the BJP win a maximum number of seats, he would know the problems they face as their representatives would have access to him, and he could attend to their needs.

The prime minister said that the atmosphere was conducive to BJP’s victory.

“When I was conducting a road show in Malkajgiri on Friday, the groundswell of support convinced me that the people were on my side,” PM Modi said. He added that the BJP would certainly come to power for the third time. He wanted the people to help the party cross the 400-seat mark in the Lok Sabha.