KTR urges minorities to teach Congress lesson in Jubilee Hills bypoll for betraying them

HYDERABAD

Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao criticised the Congress government for deceiving minorities, failing to fulfil its promises and aligning with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Participating in a meeting with minority leaders in connection with the byelection to Jubilee Hills Assembly seat at Shamshabad here on Monday, he said Congress had brought senior leaders to Telangana to announce its so-called Minority Declaration and promised a change. Two years ago, the Congress said it would allocate ₹4,000 crore annually for minorities welfare and introduce a Minorities Sub-Plan, but both promises were broken.

He recalled that the BRS government led by K. Chandrasekhar Rao had introduced the Shaadi Mubarak scheme providing ₹1 lakh financial assistance for poor brides. The Congress had promised that it would offer more — 10 gm gold in addition to ₹1 lakh under the scheme, but in vain.

Stating that Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao had established minorities’ residential schools enabling hundreds of students to become doctors and engineers, Mr. Rama Rao said the BRS government in the past had also increased the number of medical colleges from four to thirty-four and introduced scholarships worth ₹20 lakh for higher education abroad.

Mr. Rama Rao recalled that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had himself admitted that he had studied in Modi’s school, went to Chandrababu’s college and is working under Rahul Gandhi now. “Mr. Rahul Gandhi says ‘Chowkidar chor hai’, while Mr. Revanth Reddy calls Modi his elder brother. Rahul criticises the CBI and ED as Modi’s pocket agencies, But Revanth hands over the Kaleshwaram case to the CBI,” he said.

He appealed to the minorities to unite and teach Congress a lesson in the upcoming Jubilee Hills byelection and added that BRS’s victory was certain and only the winning margin remains to be decided.