KTR vents spleen at Keshava Rao and Kadiyam Srihari for leaving BRS

Gnaneswar is the BRS candidate for Chevella. He was nominated for the seat after sitting BRS MP G Ranjit Reddy left the party and is now the Congress candidate for the same Lok Sabha seat.

KTR said the party workers needed to ensure the victory of Gananeswar as though BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao himself was in the fray.

He extolled the virtues of Gnaneswar and said everyone in the party should work for his victory.

He said BRS leaders were maligning the party’s image by quitting BRS and joining Congress.

“I am leaving it to their discretion — whether it was proper for them to heap criticism on the party that stood by them. Time will give them the answer one fine day,” he said.

తెలంగాణ భవన్‌లో జరిగిన చేవెళ్ల పార్ల‌మెంట్ నియోజకవర్గ విస్తృతస్థాయి స‌మావేశంలో బీఆర్ఎస్ వర్కింగ్ ప్రెసిడెంట్ @KTRBRS గారు పాల్గొని ప్ర‌సంగించారు.

ఈ సమావేశానికి హాజరైన పార్ల‌మెంట్ నియోజకవర్గం పరిధిలోని ఎమ్మెల్యేలు, మాజీ ఎమ్మెల్యేలు, పార్టీ సీనియర్ నాయకులు

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Taking on Mahender Reddy

KTR also slammed Ranjith Reddy and MLC Patnam Mahender Reddy for switching loyalty to Congress.

“We will not allow their return to BRS even if they touch the feet of KCR,” he said, adding he felt that they should be taught a lesson.

Mahender Reddy’s wife Sunitha is the Congress nominee for Malkajgiri for the Lok Sabha elections.

KTR said both of them had betrayed the party that nurtured them. “They deserved Oscar awards for acting. They criticised Congress more than I ever did. But they finally appeared in the Congress camp,” said KTR.

He recalled Ranjith Reddy taking the initiative of requesting him to call a meeting of the Chevella constituency workers and announcing him as the candidate.

“Ranjith Reddy said he would get cracking with campaigning and that he would work hard to win the seat. Similar was the way Mahender Reddy acted — as though they had an unswerving commitment for BRS,” he said.

The BRS leader said that Ranjith Reddy’s defection had pained him a lot. “He bit the hand that fed him. He was with me all the time, but he betrayed the party when the crunch time came,” said KTR.

“In 2014, the party nominated Konda Visweswara Reddy for Chevella, which he won. But he later joined Congress and contested from the same constituency in 2019 but lost the election. Let Ranjith Reddy know that a similar fate will befall him for leaving BRS,” he said.

(Edited by Arkadev Ghoshal)