Narendra Modi is the most inefficient, incompetent prime minister India has ever seen: KTR

He added: “Why don’t we talk about the fiscal deficit of the government of India? Under whom the RBI works, everyone knows. What the RBI writes, everyone knows. What is happening in this country, everyone knows.”

KTR went on to allege: “Institutes are being abused in the country like never before. The CBI, ED, Income Tax [Department], RBI, every institution. Please don’t give me a sanctimonious, ceremonial lecture on fiscal prudence. We definitely are performing far better than the Non-Performing Alliance [referring to the NDA government] in Delhi. So we believe that there are certainly few things to learn from us, not the other way,” said KTR.

He further asked why Modi spoke about the devaluation of the currency when he was the chief minister of Gujarat.

“Modi ji lectured [the] incompetent, corrupt government in Delhi at that time. Now who is in Delhi? Since the last eight years, you are running the government. I am not saying anything new. I am calling out prime minister Modi with the words of chief minister Modi,” said KTR.

“He single-handedly destroyed India’s economy with something called demonetisation. Before Covid-19, there were eight quarters and the economy was slowing down at that time,” said KTR.

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Hyderabad, a carrying legacy

In another video interview with another news channel, KTR refuted the allegations that the Telangana government was taking credit for other governments’ works.

The interviewer pointed out to him that Hyderabad was the IT hub even when it was a part of Andhra Pradesh, as many companies opened their office in the city.

“You got it as a legacy, and today you are saying it as your own Telangana story. What do you want to say about this criticism?” she asked.

KTR replied: “We got independence on 17 September, 1948. Even at that time, Telangana was a surplus state. In 1952, when we were forced into a marriage with Andhra Pradesh, even at that time we were a surplus state. In 1968, when there was the first Telangana agitation, we were a surplus state.

He added: “I am not saying it on my own. There was a case study by the then finance secretary PR Vital ji, who is the father of Sanjaya Baru.”

He further said that In 2001, when the Telangana agitation again started, it was still a surplus state.

“It is not that someone came and made Hyderabad. Hyderabad is 444 years old, Hyderabad has always been a rich state. In fact, the then-ruler of Hyderabad, the Nizam, was featured on the Time magazine cover as the richest man in the world. Hyderabad had its own airport. Hyderabad had its own currency as a princely state. Hyderabad had its own first railway line much before Chennai and other cities got electricity. Hyderabad was the first city to get electrified in 1908,” said KTR.

He said that if someone thought the current dispensation got Hyderabad as a legacy, they were right to a certain point.

“But I want to make one more point. When we got Hyderabad, our IT exports were ₹57,000 crore. Last year, till June, our IT export had grown to ₹1.83 lakh crore, a 300 percent increase. When India’s growth rate was 9 percent, ours was 16 percent. This means that at least some contribution was from our side as well,” said KTR.

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444 years on, #Hyderabad's rich legacy and cosmopolitan saga continues…pic.twitter.com/sxTGro2M1T

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