Warangal (Telangana), Nov 10: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday accused the BRS government in Telangana of taking the state back by 10 years and leaving it in debt. The BJP, if voted to power in the November 30 Assembly elections will make an OBC leader the chief minister of the state, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting further said.
“The BRS took Telangana back by 10 years and left a financially surplus state with a debt of Rs 5 lakh crore,” he alleged at a press conference here.
Thakur promised the people of Telangana that they will be freed from dynasty politics, referring to the BRS party led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. “Whether it is the BRS or the Congress, they are two sides of the same coin. If you look at their policies, they believe in corruption, dynasty politics and indulging in one big scam after the other,” he said, taking a dig at the two parties.
He alleged that Rao made several big promises to the Scheduled Caste community but did not fulfill them, including the community not enjoying any political power.
Though the Telangana Chief Minister highlighted that he went into the most minute details and plan drawings of the Kaleshwaram Project, Thakur charged that the irrigation project ended up being the ‘biggest engineering failure in the world’. The Union Minister alleged that Rao took up the Rs 40,000 crore project and inflated its cost north of Rs 1 lakh crore, and demanded to know who pocketed all that money. Despite all this alleged corruption, Thakur charged that neither the BRS party nor Rao’s family was satisfied and also referred to KCR’s daughter, K Kavitha’s reported involvement in the Delhi liquor scam.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday slammed the Congress and BRS alleging that both parties have exploited Telangana over the years.
Addressing a press conference here, he also claimed that the Congress party, which has come out with a ‘six guarantees’ programme in poll-bound Telangana, failed to fulfill its poll promises in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
“There is no difference between KCR’s (Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao) BRS and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress. What is the difference between these two parties? The difference is one party exploited Telangana people for 65 years while the other one did it for 10 years,” the minister said. He claimed that the ideology of the BJP from 2014 has been to strengthen the country and to also transform people’s lives and economic situation. (PTI)
