RAHUL: IS THIS BANGARU TELANGANA?

Virtually sounding the poll bugle at a public meeting in Sangareddy on Thursday, AICC vicepresident Rahul Gandhi trained his guns on PM Narendra Modi and CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

Addressing an impressive ‘Telangana Praja Garjana’ rally, Mr Gandhi said the Congress had given statehood not to put it in the hands of “four members of a family” but to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of students, unemployed youth, farmers, women and others, who believed that their dreams would come true if TS is formed. “Is this the Bangaru Telangana you dreamt of?” he asked.

TPCC chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had promised Bangaru Telangana during 2014 elections but has turned the new state into a state known for debts, farmer suicides and unemployment in his three-year rule.

He expressed confidence that the Congress will win 2019 polls with thumping majority and will form government both at Centre and state-level.

Addressing the public meeting at Sangareddy, Mr Reddy listed out the failures of TRS government during the last three years and said: “Except KCR’s family, no one gained from the formation of Telangana state.”

“Out of 3.50 crore people in state, except KCR's family no one is happy in Telangana. KCR failed to provide jobs to students and youth but provided four jobs to his family members,” the TPCC chief said.

He lashed out at BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and the TRS government for failing to deliver even the things that were promised by previous UPA government in the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.

“Both BJP and TRS have miserably failed to deliver projects to Telangana that were incorporated under AP Reorganisation Act,” Mr Reddy said.