In a statement, the BRS leader said, "Modi's speech is a tissue of white lies. Let him name one good work that he had done for Telangana."
In a statement, KTR slammed Modi for his recent comments against the BRS government. (Twitter)
Taking umbrage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s broadside against the Telangana government earlier in the day, BRS working president and IT Minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday, 8 July, lashed back, saying that it had become a practice for Modi to abuse the state leadership each time he visited.
In a statement, the BRS leader said, “Modi’s speech is a tissue of white lies. Let him name one good work that he had done for Telangana.” The prime minister’s statements against the BRS government amounted to the pot calling the kettle black, he said.
KTR said that it would be better if the prime minister spoke as little as possible about “family rule and corruption” because, if he does, it would look like the devil quoting the scripture.
He reminded the prime minister that, in several states, family members of the BJP leaders were occupying top positions. “He should realise that those who are in his Cabinet are, in fact, heirs of BJP leaders,” said KTR.
Strange PM who can’t acknowledge his own Indian state #TriumphantTelangana
✅ State with Highest per capita income growth in India (₹3.17 Lakhs)
✅ First state to provide drinking water to all homes & inspired Jal Jeevan Mission
✅ State that completed World’s largest lift…— KTR (@KTRBRS) July 8, 2023
He said that the Prime Minister was trying to scare the BRS government by using the central investigation agencies against it. “We are not afraid of the central agencies. We are not scared that easy. We are more concerned about working for the people,” he retorted.
He exuded confidence that the people would drive the BJP out of Telangana in the ensuing Assembly elections as they know that, in the last nine years, the BJP had not done anything for them and, on the other hand, it had only rendered injustice to them on various counts.
Prime minister Modi, who was in a Telangana to lay foundation stones for projects worth over ₹6,000 crore, had unleashed a blistering attack on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
In a speech that appeared to kick off the BJP campaign for the coming Assembly election in the state, Modi said that corruption had become the hallmark of the ruling BRS government in the state.
Addressing a public meeting on the grounds of the Government Arts and Science College in Hanamkonda, Modi indirectly referred to the Delhi Excise Policy scam and said the BRS’s corrupt practices had now reached the national capital.
Taking a swipe at the Aam Aadmi Party, under whose rule the alleged scam took place, the prime minister termed it “unfortunate” that two states in the country had come together to pull off a scam.
Usually, states collaborated to implement development projects. But that practice now appeared to have become passe, as the purpose of such cooperation has become to facilitate corrupt deeds, he said
KTR said for the last few years, Telangana has dreamed of a railway coach factory at Kazipet. In its place, the prime minister laid the foundation stone for a railway repair shop and made a show that he had done a lot for Telangana.
He also questioned the wisdom of the prime minister in locating a coach factory in his native state of Gujarat, with an investment of ₹20,000, while neglecting his responsibility of sanctioning one for Kazipet.
PM @NarendraModi Ji,
The long-standing dream of the people of Telangana for an integrated steel plant at Bayyaram remains unfulfilled, despite being promised in the AP Reorg Act.
Even after 9 years, and several reminders, the BJP-led Union Government's continued denial is… pic.twitter.com/Jo3fwbJtON
— KTR (@KTRBRS) July 8, 2023
He also referred to how the Bayyaram steel factory, the reopening of Cement Corporation of India’s manufacturing unit, new railway lines, and so on had remained dreams, and he said that the people were seeing how the BJP was trying to pull the wool over their eyes.
KTR wanted the prime minister to spell out one scheme that he had implemented for the youth. He added that Modi was only quick to make an appeal to the youth to make the best use of the golden period through which India was passing.
He said that Modi should realise that he was responsible for the steep increase in unemployment in the country. Whenever anyone raises the question as to what he has done to contain it, pat comes the answer that making pakodas was also a job.
Dear @narendramodi Ji,
The delay in establishing a Tribal University in Telangana, as assured in the AP Reorganisation Act, has denied thousands of Tribal youth in the state access to higher education opportunities
Despite the State Government identifying & handing over 350…
— KTR (@KTRBRS) July 8, 2023
He said that Modi, without acknowledging the fact that the BRS government was filling lakhs of government jobs, was, in fact, shutting doors for employment in public sector undertakings by handing them over to the private sector.
There are 16 lakh jobs vacant in Union government departments, but the prime minister had done precious little to fill them, he said.
Modi, who spoke about the vacancies in universities in the state, should first focus on recruitment to central universities, KTR quipped.
He said that Modi would have done better had he raised how the Telangana government had put her foot firmly down on the Bill that the state had sent her regarding recruitment to the universities.
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