Let BRS MLAs who defected to Cong. resign and re-contest: KTR

hyderabad

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has asked Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to let the BRS MLAs, who defected to the Congress party, resign and re-contest, if the latter is sure about the positive impact made by the development and welfare schemes of his government.

Speaking at the extended party activists’ meeting of Serilingampally constituency, whose MLA Arekapudi Gandhi defected to the Congress, here on Sunday, he suggested that the Chief Minister should face by-elections as a referendum on his governance.

Selfish gains

Referring to the recent Supreme Court judgment, Mr. Rama Rao stated that BRS MLAs who defected did so for selfish gains. He alleged that Mr. Revanth Reddy was engaged in frivolous and time-pass politics, filing cases against BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao and he (KTR). He claimed KCR had transformed Hyderabad into the beating heart of Telangana and that’s why the BRS had won 17 Assembly seats in the GHMC limits in the 2023 elections against just two in 2014.

He accused the Congress Government of weaponising the HYDRAA task force to serve blackmail interests. “It is because of HYDRAA’s unlawful activities that Hyderabad’s real estate sector has collapsed,” he observed. He accused the Chief Minister of borrowing more in 20 months than BRS did in 10 years.

The BRS leader pointed out that while the previous BRS Government had borrowed ₹2.85 lakh crore over a decade, Mr. Revanth Reddy’s government had borrowed ₹2.2 lakh crore in just 20 months.

Alleging that HYDRAA had derailed the growth of Hyderabad, KTR asked whether the agency had the courage to demolish the illegal house built by Mr. Revanth Reddy’s brother in the FTL zone of Durgam Cheruvu. He condemned the demolition of homes of the poor while sparing the rich and powerful.