Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday, 2 April, demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao come out with a white paper on what his government had done for tribals in the last nine years.
Addressing BJP booth committee members in the Mulugu district, Bandi Sanjay said, the chief minister had promised to implement 12 percent reservations for scheduled tribes (STs) before the Assembly elections,, but had not done it deliberately by linking it to the reservations to the Muslims.
“It was a conspiracy to hoodwink the tribals. If the chief minister is sincere, he should promulgate a special ordinance and implement a 12 percent quota for the STs. Does he have the commitment to do so?” he asked.
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A slew of allegations
Sanjay accused KCR of cheating the tribals once again by not providing title deeds for podu lands.
The chief minister had not allotted lands for years together even for the establishment of a tribal university at Mulugu, he alleged.
“Do we re-elect this chief minister, who spent crores of rupees to defeat an Adivasi woman — Droupadi Murmu — fielded by the BJP in the last presidential elections?” asked Sanjay.
Changing tack, he said: “While as many as 12 STs were accommodated in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Cabinet at the Centre, the chief minister inducted just one ST in his Cabinet.”
Alleging that the chief minister and his family — which was confined to a residential building at Nandinagar — had amassed huge wealth amounting to thousands of crores, the state BJP president said the family was running liquor trade worth hundreds of crores and parking thousands of crores in foreign locations like Dubai and Muscat.
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‘BRS ruining Telangana’
He said Chandrashekar Rao made Telangana a bankrupt state by resorting to borrowings of over ₹5 lakh crore.
“If he is voted to power again, he will borrow another ₹5 lakh crore and make the people of state beggars,” he said.
Sanjay further alleged that the BRS was ruling Telangana on the lines of Bengal, terrorising Opposition leaders who questioned its atrocities.
“Hundreds of BJP leaders were thrown behind the bars. Yet, we are not afraid of jail. We are going to establish Rama Rajya in Telangana very soon, and shall drive away Chandrashekar Rao and his family,” he said.
Sanjay also said Chandrashekar Rao sent his entire Cabinet to Delhi to save the skin of his daughter Kavitha, who was caught in the Delhi liquor scam, and was trying to save his son — Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao — in the TSPSC question paper leak case at a time when the future of 30 lakh unemployed youth was in jeopardy.
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‘Will create Hindu vote bank’
Sanjay asserted that the BJP was working to convert the entire Hindu society into a strong vote bank.
“We shall not tolerate anybody who poses a threat to the existence of Hindus. We shall strongly retaliate if there are any attacks on Hindus. We countered the challenge of AIMIM president [Asaduddin] Owaisi by holding BJP meetings in the old city of Hyderabad,” he said.
Stating that the BJP would hoist the saffron flag in all the areas where there are green flags, Sanjay asked the people whether they want the BJP which celebrates the victories of India or the BRS which celebrates the victory of Pakistan.
He alleged that the BRS, the Congress and the Communists were colluding to defeat the BJP and prevent it from coming to power in Telangana and at the Centre.
“The Congress high command itself is in favour of an alliance with the BRS, as those who got elected on the Congress ticket are selling out to the BRS,” he said.
Sanjay reiterated that the BJP would not have an alliance with any party in Telangana.
“We are like a lion which prefers to go it alone. We shall come to power with the blessings of the people,” he asserted.
