Many Congress leaders ready to join BJP: Ramchander Rao

Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao on Monday claimed that many current and former MLAs as well MPs of the ruling Congress are keen to join the saffron party and they would be welcomed with open arms.

Addressing a booth level party members meeting at Indur in Nizamabad district, the party chief foresaw a ‘political change’ in the coming days in the State and appealed to the people to support the party in forthcoming local body elections and also give a chance to it in the next Assembly elections in 2028 to ‘bring prosperity’.

Mr. Rao reiterated his charge that the people of Telangana have realised that ruling Congress is also following the same path as the BRS government in ‘betraying’ people and ‘utterly failing’ to fulfill their aspirations.

There was a ‘nexus’ between the Congress and BRS to get protection from ‘vote for note’ case for the former while the latter wanted favours in ‘phone tapping case’. He challenged the government to hand over the Kaleshwaram project corruption case and the phone-tapping case to CBI.

With regard to the ongoing ruckus of urea shortage, the former MLC affirmed that the Central government has supplied ‘surplus’ urea to Telangana to meet the demands of farmers. But Congress leaders have been creating an ‘artificial shortage’ and blaming the Modi government to cover its failures of ‘mismanagement and black marketing’.

Mr. Rao contested Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud’s accusation of vote theft in the last Parliament elections and pointed out that even the ruling party won eight seats from the same voters lists and election machinery. “Congress leaders have been levelling baseless allegations after brain theft of Rahul Gandhi,” he said.

In a separate press conference, general secretary K. Venkateshwarlu accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of making ‘empty promises’ and questioned the removal of encroachments on Osmania University plus the delay in filling up 913 faculty posts. Similarly, hundreds of posts are vacant in other universities like Kakatiya, JNTU, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar, Telangana, Satavahana and IIIT-Basara to an extent of 2,419 or 66%.