Speaking to party workers from Zaheerabad, who met him at his Erravilli farmhouse, BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said the party will hold a major public meeting towards the end of February.
Published Jan 31, 2025 | 4:43 PM ⚊ Updated Jan 31, 2025 | 4:43 PM
K Chandrashekar Rao. (File pic/Supplied)
BRS president and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday, 31 January, hinted that he will return to active politics by the end of February.
KCR — as he is popularly known — has been confined to his farmhouse at Erravilli in the Siddipet district ever since the Congress came to power in December 2023.
The former chief minister’s apparent sabbatical gave fodder to the Congress. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy even referred to KCR occasionally as the ‘farmhouse chief minister’, and taunted him to come out to the political arena.
Reddy also accused him of neglecting his responsibility to provide constructive suggestions to the government in his capacity as the opposition leader.
Responding in his inimitable style, KCR said on Friday that if he hit back at Congress, “it would not be normal”.
“If I hit at the Congress, it will not be a soft blow. It will be very hard,” he told party workers from Zaheerabad, who met him at his Erravilli farmhouse. He also expressed anger at Congress’s failure to fulfill its promises made to the voters.
KCR urged party workers to get ready for “direct action”. “Let the party workers be ready for direct action. We will hold a major public meeting towards the end of February,” he announced.
He added that people had been misled by the Congress’s promise of gifting one tola of gold to women at the time of their wedding, along with a payment of ₹1 lakh under the Mahalakshmi scheme.
KCR further claimed that under the Congress’s rule, people were unhappy. “Till now, I have been watching silently but keenly observing how the Congress is performing. Now, it is time for us to show the Congress the power of Telangana,” he said.
“The people are ready to confront Congress leaders if they come to them,” he said. He also referred to the grand old party’s recent online poll, where people had overwhelmingly voted in favor of BRS.
The Congress, in a bid to belittle the BRS, launched a poll on X, asking people their preferred governance. The poll gave two options, ‘Farmhouse governance’ — a dig at the BRS — and ‘Prajjala Vaddaku Palana’.
Much to the Congress’s discomfiture, more than 70 percent of the participants chose ‘Farmhouse governance’.
Referring to the 2023 Assembly elections, the BRS chief said the people fell into the Congress’s trap despite his warning.
“They were carried away by the promises made by the Congress. Now, the Congress is taking people for a ride. They have abandoned Rythu Bandhu and said Jai Bhim to Dalit Bandhu. I had warned people about this danger on the eve of the Assembly elections,” KCR recalled.
The former chief minister sounded confident that better days lay ahead for the BRS. He urged party workers to prepare to fight the Congress.
“Under the Congress dispensation, land values have crashed, and all the projects initiated under the BRS rule have now stalled. The Congress is deliberately turning Kaleswaram, Sangameswara, and Basaweswara projects into non-starters,” KCR alleged.
The BRS supremo’s promise to lead the party from the front is expected to energise party workers, who have been disheartened by the party’s setbacks in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
With KCR taking the reins once again, their morale—currently at its lowest—is expected to rise.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
