BRS leaders ask CM to prove on funds spent on Hyderabad’s development

HYDERABAD

Senior leaders of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and former ministers Talasani Srinivas Yadav and T. Padmarao Goud have ridiculed the remarks of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy that BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao had hardly visited the localities of Hyderabad and sought to know where did he (Chief Minister) go during the last 23 months.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, they stated that the BRS Government in the past had spent ₹44,000 crore on the development of Hyderabad and the Congress Government in the past had spent a maximum of ₹4,600 crore on the city, that too in the combined State. Mr. Yadav said he was ready to quit as an MLA if the Chief Minister proved that ₹4,000 crore was spent on the development of Secunderabad Cantonment constituency during the last 23 months.

Stating that the Cabinet berth to Mohd. Azharuddin was due to pressure built by BRS, Mr. Yadav said it was out of fear of defeat in Jubilee Hills that the ruling party had inducted him into the Cabinet. On the threat of the Chief Minister that defeat of the ruling party in Jubilee Hills would stop welfare schemes, Mr. Yadav said people would know how to fight for the benefits, in case they were stopped.

Another leader of the party Manne Krishank said the Chief Minister was trying to fool the people of Jubilee Hills as he did with the people of Cantonment constituency. While BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao had expressed solidarity with Maganti’s family after the death of Gopinath by fielding his wife in the byelection, Mr. Revanth Reddy had deceived Gaddar’s family by denying ticket to his daughter Vennela for the Cantonment byelection.