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.
Pot calling the kettle black situation 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.
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.
In a recent public meeting at Warangal, PM Modi 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.
